President Barack Obama met with the panel he requested to review U.S. surveillance programs on the collection of telephone and Internet data for the first time on Tuesday, Bloomberg reports. Obama announced the panel’s establishment earlier this month, saying, “It’s not enough for me, as president, to have confidence in these programs. The American people need to have confidence in them as well.” The panel will provide the president with interim findings in 60 days, and its goal is to examine how the U.S. “can employ its technical collection capabilities in a way that optimally protects our national security and advances our foreign policy while respecting our commitment to privacy and civil liberties.”
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