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Surveillance changes are under way. President Barack Obama...

Surveillance changes are under way. President Barack Obama recently said that “absent a true emergency, the telephony metadata can only be queried after a judicial finding that there is a reasonable, articulable suspicion that the selection term is associated with…

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an approved international terrorist organization,” said Director of National Intelligence James Clapper in a statement Thursday night (http://bit.ly/1iBEtWh). “The President also directed that the query results must be limited to metadata within two hops of the selection term instead of three.” The Justice Department filed a motion with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to amend its Jan. 3 primary order on phone surveillance, which was granted on Thursday. The government is working to declassify these documents by Feb. 17, Clapper said.