White House to release report on reforms of NSA spying - New York Daily News

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[h=4]Evan Vucci/AP[/h] [h=4]White House press secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday that any reforms to the NSA that result from an independent task force’s report will not harm national security.[/h]
The White House will release a task force report Wednesday of recommended changes to the NSA’s data collection programs a month ahead of schedule.
The review conducted by an outside panel has originally been slated for release next month, but White House spokesman Jay Carney said reports on the findings were “inaccurate,” leading to the expedited schedule.

[h=4]MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA[/h] [h=4]President Obama Vice President Biden met with tech executives Tuesday regarding the economic impact of NSA spying. The execs reportedly told Obama the ongoing revelations had affected their bottom lines, particularly with customers abroad.[/h]
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Carney added that any reforms to the National Security Agency that result from the review would not harm national security.

[h=4]Rick Bowmer/AP[/h] [h=4]The NSA’s massive Utah Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah. The White House will release a report on the agency’s surveillance programs Wednesday, a month ahead of schedule.[/h]
Obama met with members of the group, called the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology, on Wednesday morning. Carney said.
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[h=4]Win McNamee/Getty Images[/h] [h=4]NSA Director Keith Alexander has aggressively defended the agency’s spying programs as within the law and vital to national security.[/h]
The report will come only two days after a federal judge in Washington slammed the NSA’s telephone metadata collection program, calling it “almost Orwellian” and likely unconstitutional.
On Tuesday the execs of several major tech giants reportedly complained to Obama that the ongoing revelations about NSA spying had adversely affected their business.

[h=4]Patrick Semansky/AP[/h] [h=4]NSA documents leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden have revealed the agency’s broad spying both at home and abrad.[/h]
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Supporters of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have said the possibility of reform amount to vindication of his decision to leak a vast trove of top secret documents.
But Carney has reiterated that Snowden is charged with violations of the Espionage Act and that he will not receive immunity from Obama.
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