suspicious, they could pretty much in-house, start that search process and do its own surveillance from there. oversight has always been a question. once this came out with edward snowden's revelation. what the white house has been doing is working with done gress. soon, they want to propose a law so that all the collection would be done by the phone companies themselves. then, they would store it or it would possibly be stored by a third party and the white house wants to make sure that in authorizing a search, the nsa would have to basically get that stamp of approval from a judge. every phone number that they want to look into, a judge would have to agree that it could be in some way linked to terrorism. obama started to make those changes in january. he also kind of narrowed the search parameters so that they call it like three stops away from that initial phone number. how many other phone numbers associated with that phone number they could then search. well, president obama narrowed