PRESIDENT OBAMA's SPEECH ON INTELLIGENCE SECURITY REFORM..............

In the aftermath of the Edward Snowden release of millions of National Security Agency Documents of a confidential and diplomatic nature, which Snowden an independent contractor analyst absconded with illegally, President Barack Obama proposed NSA reforms today.  While calling for the ending of the Federal Government's unregulated control of collecting telephone data against our citizens in surveillance that accesses data without the permission of the FISA Court, President Obama defended the national intelligence and security community as, "not cavalier about the civil liberties of our fellow citizens".   He called for stopping spying on other World Leaders and of foreign citizens affording them proper privacy protections.  The reforms the President seeks are intended to bolster Americans confidence that their rights and privacy are being protected, even as necessary surveillance proceeds, with adjustments and changes in Section 215 of the Patriot Act governing these activities.  Today's reform proposals are viewed as a start in addressing the controversy, but as not going far enough in resolving the abuses, as the central debate over whether the actions of someone such as Snowden is a whistleblower or acting criminally in disseminating data, of such a sensitive domestic and international nature..............Father Troy David