Holder: We're on track to meet NSA reform deadline
The Justice Department and the National Security Agency are on track to meet President Barack Obama's call for officials to come up with plans to revamp or replace an NSA program which gathers massive amounts of data on telephone calls made and received by Americans in order to help investigate possible terroist plots, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.
"We will meet the deadline that the president has set," Holder said, referring to the March 28 deadline Obama laid out in a speech in January promising reforms to U.S. intelligence gathering practices.
National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander said in a February 14 speech that "ideas" were headed to the White House the following week, more than a month ahead of the deadline.
In Obama's January speech, he called for an end to the NSA's bulk collection of telephone metadata. He urged replacing the program with one that stored the data with telephone providers, or with a third-party created for that purpose, or that used other capabilities to provide a similar ability to gain insight into terrorist plots.
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