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In place a full-time civil liberties and privacy officer and released information that details its mission, authorities, and oversight. finally, the intelligence community is creating a website that will serve as a hub for further transparency. this will give americans and the world the ability to learn more about what our intelligence community does and what it doesn't do, how it carries out its mission and why it does so. fourth, we're forming a high-level group of outside experts to review our entire intelligence and communications technologies. we need new thinking for a new era. we now ha...

Weeks i've consulted members of congress, who have come at this issue from many different perspectives, i've asked the privacy and civil liberties oversight board to review where our course counterterrorism come into effect, and today i'd like to discuss four specific steps, not all-inclusive but specific steps we're going to be taking shortly to move the debate forward. first, i will work with congress to pursue appropriate reforms to section 215 of the patriot act. the program that collects telephone records. as i've said, this program is an important tool in our effort to disrupt terrorist ...

That's why over the last few weeks i've consulted members of congress who have come at this issue from many different perspectives. i've asked the privacy and civil liberties oversight board to review where our counterterrorism efforts and values come into tension. and i directed my national security team to be more transparent and to pursue reforms it of our laws and practices. so today i'd like to discuss four specific steps, not all inclusive, but some specific steps that we're going to be taking very shortly to move the debate forward. first, i will work with congress to have appropriate r...

Planning is taking place. we think that's where the activity is planned for. so, yes, these programs, even though they're controversial, this is a good indication of why they're so important. >> and this is the key part of the debate, senator durbin. it was the chairman of the judiciary committee, your colleague, senator leahy, who said wait a minute, i know the nsa tells us 54 plots in one way or another have been this wartded because of the program senator chambliss is referring to, he says that's a bit of an joef statement, and he said it in open testimony this week. listen. >> open testimo...

Stroke or the telephone logs that have been the subject of controversy. we don't know. but i tell you, going forward, it seems to me that those programs are ideally designed to try and help nsa and the government as a whole, put together these bits and pieces of information to tell us more of what the actual target of this might be. >> if the nsa program was indeed responsible for uncovering a terrorist plot, do you think, in the mind of many americans, their opinions about the surveillance by nsa will change? they may say, wait a minute. this does justify and vindicate the program in uncoveri...