White House soothes Brazil over NSA

The Obama Administration is making an effort to quell foreign concerns about spying by the National Security Agency (NSA) and other intelligence arms.

National Security Adviser Susan Rice met with Brazil’s foreign minister, Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, to update him on President Obama’s plans to rein in the spy agency. Rice “outlined the results of the review of US signals intelligence activities, and the reforms to be implemented,” the White House said in a statement. Though the White House has not specifically said whether the NSA would back off Rousseff, a senior administration official said at the time that they “have made determinations to not pursue surveillance on dozens of heads of state in government.”