The day before President Barack Obama delivered a speech on the National Security Agency (NSA), White House officials “rushed to include additional surveillance restrictions to address concerns of privacy advocates and the president’s own review panel,” The Wall Street Journal reports. The last-minute additions—indicating the tension between Obama’s national security responsibility and widespread concerns about privacy—meant Obama would require the NSA to obtain a warrant before it could search a database of Americans’ phone calls. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) recently held a packed town meeting in Vermont on NSA surveillance. Meanwhile The Hill reports Obama’s nominee to take over the NSA is a stranger to the privacy advocacy community. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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