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Panel hands Obama report

SURVEILLANCE

AFP, Washington
A review panel handed President Barack Obama a report Friday on surveillance by US spy agencies following explosive revelations on vast phone and Internet sweeps by fugitive Edward Snowden.
The report contains more than 40 recommendations the White House will consider, and Obama will deliver a speech on the subject after a full-scale review of US eavesdropping activity concludes in January, National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said.
The report is said to recommend a continuation of National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs, which have alarmed US allies and civil liberties groups, but with some new privacy safeguards.
The White House will study the five-man panel's work and decide which recommendations to adopt, which need further study, and which to discarded.
The report looks at how Washington can use its intelligence capability to guard national security while maintaining public trust.
Obama said last week that he would introduce some restraints on the NSA following the review.
Snowden's revelations show that the NSA has systematically raked in metadata and information from millions of emails and phone calls, some of it about US citizens. The leaks have provided a rolling embarrassment for the White House and damaged US national security, while the scale of the eavesdropping has shocked and angered US allies.
The New York Times reported that the review panel would recommend making public the privacy protections foreign citizens can expect when the NSA gathers their phone or Internet records.
Separately, a US official said the White House had also decided to maintain the "dual-hatted" arrangement that sees a single military officer head the NSA eavesdropping service and US cyberwarfare operations.
The Wall Street Journal, meanwhile, said the task force would recommend that records of phone calls held by the NSA after the massive data mining operations should
be held by telephone companies and not the spy agency.
The Times reported that the review panel would recommend that top White House officials directly examine the list of foreign leaders whose communications are monitored by the NSA.
The Times also said that the White House review would create a corps of lawyers who would argue against NSA attorneys over espionage operations in the existing Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
White House officials declined to comment on the reports.