US President Barack Obama met Thursday with congressional leaders in the White House to discuss changes to National Security Agency surveillance efforts.
As part of Obama’s commitment to work with Congress on the reforms of United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) and the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, the White House said "these meetings are an opportunity for the president to hear from Congress members as he nears the end of his review."
After recent revelations about NSA’s widespread surveillance, Obama promised last month to outline his intelligence and surveillance reforms this month.
NSA's spying on foreign leaders and US citizens came to light when 30-year-old former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked secret US Internet and phone surveillance programs and then fled to Russia in June, 2013 where he was granted asylum.
