The Complete NSA Panel Report-- The One That REBUKES NSA and VINDICATES SNOWDEN

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President Obama appointed a panel to assess and review intelligence and surveillance policies. The world is taking this report as a rebuke of the NSA and a vindication of Edward Snowden.






This is the transmittal letter and outline. The full almost 300 page document is available here.



12 December 2013

Report and Recommendations of The President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies

Transmittal Letter


Dear Mr. President:

We are honored to present you with the Final Report of the Review

Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies. Consistent with

your memorandum of August 27, 2013, our recommendations are designed

to protect our national security and advance our foreign policy while also

respecting our longstanding commitment to privacy and civil liberties,

recognizing our need to maintain the public trust (including the trust of

our friends and allies abroad), and reducing the risk of unauthorized

disclosures.

We have emphasized the need to develop principles designed to

create strong foundations for the future. Although we have explored past

and current practices, and while that exploration has informed our

recommendations, this Report should not be taken as a general review of,

or as an attempt to provide a detailed assessment of, those practices. Nor

have we generally engaged budgetary questions (although some of our

recommendations would have budgetary implications).


We recognize that our forty-six recommendations, developed over a

relatively short period of time, will require careful assessment by a wide

range of relevant officials, with close reference to the likely consequences.

Our goal has been to establish broad understandings and principles that




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