President Obama plans new limits on NSA surveillance

President Barack Obama said that he'll be reining in some of the snooping conducted by the National Security Agency, but he did not detail what new limits he plans to impose on the embattled spy organization.

"I'll be proposing some self-restraint on the NSA. And... to initiate some reforms that can give people more confidence, " President Obama said. The President insisted that the NSA's work shows respect for the rights of Americans, but he conceded that its activities are often more intrusive when it comes to foreigners communicating overseas. "The NSA actually does a very good job about not engaging in domestic surveillance, not reading people's e-mails, not listening to the contents of their phone calls. Outside of our borders, the NSA's more aggressive. It's not constrained by laws," President Obama said. The President pointed to an outside panel he set up in August to look into how the government was collecting surveillance data in the era of 'big data.' The five-member group is set to deliver its final report to Obama by Dec 15.