Aides Say Obama Set to Change NSA Spy Programs

White House officials say U.S. President Barack Obama is set to end government control of its massive collection of records about phone calls Americans make and require judicial approval to search the data.His aides said that Mr. Obama will call Friday for the government to move away from controlling the records by March 28, the date on which a secret surveillance court would have to reauthorize the program. The records would then be held in the private sector, although it was not...

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