US Allies Remain Skeptical of Obama’s Surveillance Reforms

There has been a muted response from U.S. allies to President Obama’s plans to curb the surveillance activities of the National Security Agency. Documents leaked by fugitive intelligence analyst Edward Snowden suggested the agency has been collecting electronic data on millions of American and foreign civilians, and had tapped the phones of foreign leaders. The leaked documents revealed the National Security Agency had harvested data on the phone calls, emails and SMS...

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