Glenn Greenwald: Obama’s NSA Reforms Are ‘Basically a PR Gesture’

Greenwald: Obama’s Proposed NSA Reforms Are Cosmetic, ‘Basically a PR Gesture’ (Mediaite)

Journalist Glenn Greenwald is not impressed by the NSA reforms being proposed by President Obama. During an appearance on Al Jazeera America Thursday night, Greenwald previewed the speech Obama gave today announcing a few changes to NSA surveillance programs, and said that nothing meaningful is being proposed, it’s just all one giant public relations stunt to make it look like they really care about intelligence reform.

Greenwald said that even though Obama’s met with an executive privacy board and made public comment after public comment about how he understands the need to reign in surveillance in some quarters, it was never really his intention to do any of that.