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White House Directs New Intelligence Review Group

Julie Samuel

Tuesday, August 13th, 2013

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White House Directs New Intelligence Review Group

President Barack Obama announced on Monday that a new group will review how federal intelligence agencies are monitoring people’s electronic and voice communications. Obama directs Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to establish a Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies in a memo signed Monday. “The Review Group will assess whether, in light of advancements in communications technologies, the United States employs its technical collection capabilities in a manner that optimally protects our national security and advances our foreign…

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