WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, two review panels given nearly similar assignments by President Barack Obama have been studying how the White House should change or limit the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs.
They have functioned separately, with different experts and private and public hearings. Their mandates, however, were almost identical.
The first panel recommended changes to NSA’s programs this week. So it was at least a little surprising that it also urged the White House to abolish the second panel and supplant it with a new one.
The President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies said that the second, independent panel should be scrapped and replaced with a new board and given expanded authority.
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