Arstechnica: Back in January, after receiving the recommendations of the panel he formed to examine the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs, President Barack Obama said he wanted to end the NSA’s mass collection of Americans’ phone call records—without crippling its ability to conduct surveillance.
The President gave the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence until March 28 to come up with a plan to make it happen. That date wasn’t just pulled out of the air—it’s also the date that the current Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order authorizing the collection program expires. Now, less than a week before the deadline, that plan is in the President’s hands.
