Obama orders 'review of spy operations´
US President Barack Obama says he has ordered a review of the way US
spy agencies gather intelligence.
US President Barack Obama says he has ordered a review of the way US spy agencies gather intelligence. It follows a string of embarrassing revelations which include bugging millions of phone calls.France, Germany and Spain are some of the countries now seeking explanations.
Obama's comments came during an interview with Fusion, a cable network joint venture between ABC and Univision on Monday.
He called for a review of the agency's operations, "to make sure that what they're able to do doesn't necessarily mean what they should be doing".
Obama said he is the "final user" of all intelligence gathered by the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies in the US and that the White House gives the NSA "policy direction", but that "their capacities continue to develop and expand".
His statements echoed, head of US Senate's Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, who earlier on Monday called for a "total review of all intelligence programmes" after reports that American spies eavesdropped on German chancellor Angela Merkel.
