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US panel calls for sweeping reform

AFP, Washington
A White House-picked panel Wednesday recommended curbing the secretive powers of the National Security Agency (NSA), warning that its mass spying sweeps in the war on terror had gone too far.
The report said the NSA should halt the mass storage of domestic phone records, and called for new scrutiny on snooping on world leaders plus privacy safeguards for foreigners and fresh transparency over US eavesdropping.
The 300-page report unveiled 46 recommendations to reshape US surveillance policy following explosive revelations by fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden which outraged US allies and civil liberties advocates.
The report, by a five-man panel of legal and intelligence experts, was commissioned by President Barack Obama himself - yet puts him in a tricky political spot between those demanding change and the US intelligence community.
However, there is no guarantee the president will accept the non-binding recommendations.
The panel urged reforms of a secret national security court that oversees clandestine surveillance operations and an end to bulk retention of telephone "metadata" by the National Security Agency (NSA).
Mass collection of billions of telephone records could still go on -but the "metadata" should not be kept by the NSA but in private hands, to permit specific queries by the agency or law enforcement, if national security is deemed at risk.
The NSA currently pours over
telephone and Internet data to seek patterns of communications between extremists.
Throughout, the report argued that a new equilibrium needed to be found between national security, and privacy and individual Constitutional rights.
It steered away from calling for outright curbs on gathering intelligence on foreign leaders. But it said US spy chiefs should be forced to justify surveillance on world leaders to the president and his aides.
The panel said a secret court handling foreign intelligence requests should have a" public interest advocate" so that it can hear more than only the government's arguments.
And it agreed with major technology companies which have been seeking to release more information on the numbers of national security requests they receive, and said the government should release numbers of its own.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday supported NSA surveillance saying it is necessary to fight terrorism.Putin's comment at a major news conference was surprising support for Obama's administration, which has faced massive criticism over NSA activities.