President Obama’s plan to limit the scope of NSA surveillance activities has disappointment privacy advocates, who said reforms did not curb spying enough. But former intelligence and officials are now warning that the changes could put American lives at risk. In speech on Friday outlining his reforms, Obama called for an end to spying on leaders of friendly countries, requiring a court order to access data from their database of cell phone records, limiting the scope of what NSA can do when it does access the database, and the possible creation of a new body to store that data. The president also said that he would ask Congress to appoint a public advocate to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court.-



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