He had to "lay down some roadblocks in addition to what we have now so that once you're gone it'll be harder" to abuse spying abilities.
He did not explain how he could be certain that intelligence officers of the two countries, which have very sophisticated electronic spying abilities, had not gotten access to the information on his laptops.
Among the particular criticisms made in the report were that the C.I.A., despite eight years of rebuilding, had not yet repaired human spying abilities lost because of budget cuts during the 1990's.
But a looming legislative deadline, a recent court ruling against a controversial program that collects the details of millions of Americans' phone calls and a filibuster threat mean that the government's spying abilities face an uncertain future.
McConnell, on the other hand, has argued that the House bill's constriction of the NSA's spying abilities would endanger Americans.
Yahoo, Verizon, Sprint, and others have recently come under fire for sharing customer data with the authorities, and admitting to "spying" abilities that would "shock" and "confuse" customers.
It may also illustrate how much secret spying local police forces are engaging in, ACLU argues: Anaheim is not a particularly large city in Orange County, yet its police force has developed vast spying abilities. .
Now I might be unusual in that my favorite movie in the Bourne trilogy is the first one, which was directed by Doug Liman, and had Jason Bourne discovering his spying abilities while bringing a largely unwilling bystander, played by Franka Potente, along for the ride.
Neatly made, quietly beautiful, the Royal Ballet's 35-year-old prima ballerina has the spy's ability to pass unnoticed.
A US Senate panel approved its annual authorisation of funding for intelligence operations on Tuesday, including measures to increase spy agencies' ability to prevent leaks of classified information like those by Snowden.
