Former NSA director says Obama not making major surveillance changes

Retired Gen. Michael Hayden, the former director of the National Security Agency and CIA, said Sunday that President Obama’s proposals for greater oversight of controversial surveillance tactics would not lead to drastic changes to the programs.

“To me, the most telling thing he said is something he didn’t quite say. He didn’t suggest that he was going to operationally change this program,” Hayden said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “He also suggested that the oversight regime for this was already quite good. He pointed out that there have been no abuses under him or under his predecessor.”