奥巴马总统今天宣布了他改革一些**监视措施的方法，至少就目前而言，美国情报和国防界支持这些想法。美国国防部长哈格尔（Chuck Hagel）和国家情报局局长克拉珀（James Clapper）都发表声明，为奥巴马演讲中概述的变化提供担保。”哈格尔在一份声明中说：“这些项目必须始终平衡保卫****的需要和维护美国个人自由的责任，总统的决定和建议将做到这一点。”。

克拉珀本人在整个国安局争议中经常遭到抨击，他给予了更强烈的赞扬。”他说：“总统对他今天宣布的倡议采取了慎重和深思熟虑的态度他的改革侧重于在确保我们拥有进行情报工作所需的工具和确保我们尽可能透明以及遵守保护所有美国人公民自由和隐私的协议之间取得适当的平衡。”

分别领导参议院情报委员会和众议院情报委员会的参议员戴安·范斯坦（Dianne Feinstein）和众议员迈克·罗杰斯（Mike Rogers）似乎也对奥巴马的讲话感到高兴。根据一份联合声明，他们“期待着与总统合作，增加对这些项目的信心。”并不是每个人都对奥巴马的讲话印象深刻。参议员兰德·保罗说，新的战略基本上等同于“同一个违宪的计划，有一个新的配置”。你可以阅读我们的奥巴马计划记分卡，更好地了解他们将产生的影响。

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美国国防部长哈格尔的声明：

I fully support the reforms to signals intelligence programs that President Obama outlined today - not only as Secretary of Defense, but as former co-chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board and a former member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. These programs must always balance the need to defend our national security with the resp***ibility to preserve America's individual liberties, and the President's decisi*** and recommendati*** will do that. They will help restore the confidence of the American people and our allies and partners. They will preserve important capabilities that keep us safe. And they will help the men and women of America's military continue to accomplish their missi*** all over the world.

国家情报局局长詹姆斯·克拉珀的声明：

Today, President Obama announced new guidelines for Intelligence Community foreign intelligence surveillance programs. His decisi*** were guided by recommendati*** from the Review Group on Intelligence and Communicati*** Technologies, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board and in close c***ultation with Congress and Intelligence Community leaders.

The President took a measured and thoughtful approach to the initiatives he announced today. His reforms are focused on striking the right balance between making sure we have the tools necessary to conduct intelligence, and ensuring that we are being as transparent as possible and abiding by protocols that protect the civil liberties and privacy of all Americans. He reminded us that as technology advances, we continue to face new and evolving threats to our national security and must adjust our policies and practices to ensure that our intelligence activities are both necessary and appropriate.

In the coming weeks, we will work with our oversight committees to implement the President’s reforms while we continue to focus on the intelligence challenges facing the United States and our allies.

As intelligence professionals, we have historically preferred to avoid the spotlight, but we know that for the foreseeable future, the public will remain focused on what we do and how we do it. To build on and maintain the trust of the American people and our international partners, we must embrace the President’s call for transparency.

As the President said, the men and women of the Intelligence Community perform extraordinarily difficult jobs, in which success is rarely celebrated but is vital to our national security. We conduct the lawful foreign intelligence activities that have been instrumental in preventing a multitude of attacks and saved scores of innocent lives – not just here in the United States, but around the globe.

I am extremely proud of how our workforce, especially the National Security Agency, has persevered, and I have assured the President that as we embrace the reforms announced today, we will continue – as we always have – to do our part to keep the nation safe.

参议员戴安·范斯坦和众议员迈克·罗杰斯的发言：

Today President Obama gave a strong speech in defense of the need to collect and use intelligence in order to protect the nation and to prevent terrorist attacks around the world. We strongly agree with his comments in support and praise of the professionals in our intelligence community who do this work while upholding the civil liberties and privacy rights of all Americans.

We are also pleased the president underscored the importance of using telephone metadata to rapidly identify possible terrorist plots, a gap that existed on September 11, 2001, and which has been closed through the NSA’s collection of telephone metadata under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. As the president said, this is a capability that is ‘critical’ and must be ‘preserved.’

We have carefully reviewed this program and have found it to be legal and effective. And for seven months, both the House and Senate intelligence committees have developed legislation to provide additional safeguards on the program, while keeping the data where it is most secure and effective.

The president announced his intent to seek approvals from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court prior to querying the Section 215 database. If instituted, that approval process must be made faster in the future than it was in the past—when it took up to nine days to gain Court approval for a single search. We encourage the White House to send legislation with the president’s proposed changes to Congress so they can be fully debated.

President Obama said today that U.S. intelligence programs have ‘made us more secure’ and that nothing indicates that our intelligence community ‘has sought to violate the law or is cavalier about the civil liberties of their fellow citizens.’ We agree and look forward to working with the president to increase confidence in these programs.