Obama: Global SIGINT Collection and Communications Tech
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/12/presidential-memorandum-
reviewing-our-global-signals-intelligence-collec
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
August 12, 2013
Presidential Memorandum -- Reviewing Our Global Signals Intelligence Collection
and Communications Technologies
SUBJECT: Reviewing Our Global Signals Intelligence Collection and Communications
Technologies
The United States, like all nations, gathers intelligence in order to protect
its national interests and to defend itself, its citizens, and its partners
and allies from threats to our security. The United States cooperates closely
with many countries on intelligence matters and these intelligence relationships
have helped to ensure our common security.
Recent years have brought unprecedented and rapid advancements in communications
technologies, particularly with respect to global telecommunications. These
technological advances have brought with them both great opportunities and
significant risks for our Intelligence Community: opportunity in the form
of enhanced technical capabilities that can more precisely and readily identify
threats to our security, and risks in the form of insider and cyber threats.
I believe it is important to take stock of how these technological advances
alter the environment in which we conduct our intelligence mission. To this
end, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the
laws of the United States of America, I am directing you to establish a Review
Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies (Review Group).
The Review Group will assess whether, in light of advancements in communications
technologies, the United States employs its technical collection capabilities
in a manner that optimally protects our national security and advances our
foreign policy while appropriately accounting for other policy considerations,
such as the risk of unauthorized disclosure and our need to maintain the
public trust. Within 60 days of its establishment, the Review Group will
brief their interim findings to me through the Director of National Intelligence
(DNI), and the Review Group will provide a final report and recommendations
to me through the DNI no later than December 15, 2013.
You are hereby authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the
Federal Register.
BARACK OBAMA
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