Privacy board shares findings with Obama

Published January 10, 2014 6:48pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — The independent oversight board reviewing the U.S. government’s surveillance programs briefed President Barack Obama this week on recommendations and key sections of its upcoming report, the task force’s chairman said Friday.

The White House said Friday Obama will announce results of his review of the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs on Jan. 17. Obama intends to lay out the changes he will make to the NSA’s practice of collecting every American’s phone records every day and other surveillance operations.

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