NSA review panel to present Obama with dossier on surveillance reforms

[unhappycamper]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/28/obama-nsa-dossier-classified-surveillance



Classified document will also detail consequences of domestic and foreign spying revelations as anger mounts abroad

NSA review panel to present Obama with dossier on surveillance reforms
Paul Lewis in Washington
The Guardian, Monday 28 October 2013 14.48 EDT

Barack Obama will receive a classified dossier in the next two weeks that will lay out the consequences for US foreign relations of the National Security Agency's powerful surveillance apparatus and provide the White House with a raft of possible reforms.

The document is being drafted by a top-level group of experts appointed by the president to conduct an external review of US surveillance capabilities and the damage to public trust resulting from the Edward Snowden disclosures.

The review, parts of which will be declassified and released to the public, will be completed by mid-December. However, a senior administration official familiar with the process said a secret "interim report" will be shared with the president shortly.

The group's work has been delayed slightly because of the recent US government shutdown, but it is expected to submit the report to the president via the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, in the week beginning 11 November.

[newfie11]

1. Who's to say stuff isn't being shredded

Or just not available for viewing.
Are we relying on NSA to come clean?

[bemildred]

2. They will come clean exactly as much as they are forced to do, and no more.

There are two choices here: Obama knew and was complicit, for reasons to be explained; or he did not know and has to be seriously annoyed about not being in the loop with this folly that has blown up in his face. And if he wants to sell that, he better start acting like it.