Lawmakers Spurn Obama Bid to Preserve NSA Data Gathering

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The Obama administration is considering steps to quiet the uproar over U.S. spy programs, including curbs on foreign surveillance while allowing the bulk collection of Americans’ phone records to continue.

White House officials also are looking at separating the agencies in charge of intelligence gathering and cyberwar policy to take so much power out of the hands of one general.