Published on Jan 17, 2014
Within the past few minutes,
President Obama has outlined reforms of America's controversial
surveillance tactics - which had ensnared millions of people's phone
calls, texts and emails around the globe. After praising the NSA and its
importance to security, he admitted it made mistakes in its collection
of private data. RT's Marina Portnaya has been listening in to what
Barack Obama's said so far. President Obama also asked the Congress to
establish an independent privacy defender in the federal courts, to
increase the supervision of intelligence work. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill
are divided over where the spying programs' boundaries should be.
Democratic congressman Rush Holt proposed his own bill for reining in
the NSA. Let's talk more now to former FBI agent Collen Rowley.
