Democratic senator Ron Wyden welcomed President Obama‘s proposed reforms to the National Security Agency‘s surveillance programs Sunday, but said that further steps were needed to curb spying on Americans.
“I believe strongly we ought to ban all dragnet surveillance on law-abiding Americans, not just phone records but also medical records, purchases and others,” said Wyden, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence who has been a consistent critic of the NSA’s surveillance programs.
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