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Even with a Republican majority in both houses, getting Congress to agree to major changes to intelligence agencies seems unlikely.
Requiring court sign-off for queries of Americans' e-mails and phone calls had been the suggestion of a White House review panel on government surveillance activities as well as a number of lawmakers who are seeking changes to intelligence programs.
President Obama has proposed several changes to Intelligence Agency surveillance, but any major transparency reforms will have to wait until congress takes up the issue later this year.
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The changes to intelligence-gathering were meant to emphasize improving the quality of the analysis, officials said.
Europe has not made widespread changes to how intelligence is shared, and the attacks in Paris and Brussels have renewed calls for greater cooperation and intelligence sharing in fighting terrorist networks.
It's a bill that makes many broad changes to our intelligence gathering apparatus.
Mr. Nabil said he planned changes to the intelligence service, not in its objectives but in how it dealt with the population to gain cooperation.
Most significant changes to the intelligence community would require an act of Congress, a fact that would ultimately blunt whatever ideas or proposals Mr. Feinberg came up with.
While Mr. Gilligan has admitted making errors in his original report, evidence has emerged that the government was feverishly working to toughen the dossier, making last-minute additions and deletions and recommending suggestions for changes to the intelligence chiefs responsible for the document.
Even after the early June passage of the USA Freedom Act, which makes important changes to the intelligence community's surveillance programs, a key problem remains unresolved: the recipients of secret national security requests are routinely gagged from disclosing data about those requests.
Paul and the Democratic senators Ron Wyden, Mark Udall and Richard Blumenthal unveiled their bill at a joint press conference, saying the package of measures represented wholesale reform and should be treated as the baseline for changes to the intelligence apparatus that are more than just cosmetic.
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