NSA Spying Program Expected To Undergo Major Changes As Pres. Obama And Spy Leaders Meet At The White House Today

United States Pres. Barack Obama will limit NSA's access to public records and will ask for more oversight of the National Intelligence Priorities Framework, a classified document that ranks US intelligence-gathering priorities and is used to make decisions on scrutiny of foreign leaders.

These are what the sources close to the White House are expecting from the president as he and other spy leaders are wrap up issues on NSA's public spying program today.

The agency will also be ordered to scale back the spying endeavors that target foreign leaders.

"He is still in the process of deliberating over the review group's report and hearing from others on the issues that were raised in the review group's report," White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters during a conference early this week.

"The administration has not yet made the case that increased data retention is necessary, but I welcome any proposals that serve our national security interests without undermining constitutional rights" Representative James Sensenbrenner, the chief House sponsor of a bill preventing the agency from collecting US domestic phone data, told the Guardian.

The meeting was held after information released by former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden revealed that the US government is spying on the world's top leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The surveillance program hasn't been that smooth, a scenario that American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) calls 'absolute chaos.' ACLU President Susan Herman is one of the few surveillance program skeptics that were invited by the administration for the discussion.

"It's very confusing right now. We feel good about the House but have a problem in the Senate. We're not getting a lot of people to budge on this issue," ACLU lobbyist Michelle Richardson said.

According to sources, Obama's decision is expected to come out by next week.

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