NSA reforms: Obama’s playing a Fourth Amendment shell game.

The National Security Agency’s controversial call-records dragnet has never been much use at finding terrorists, as two separate government panelshave concluded, but technological change has been gradually rendering it completely irrelevant. Now, under the guise of putting an end to that program—which sweeps in the phone logs of millions of innocent Americans for later analysis—President Obama has proposed a new authority that could force private corporations to act as government spies, circumventing constitutional privacy safeguards in the process.



NSA reforms: Obama’s playing a Fourth Amendment shell game.