Obama touts NSA surveillance reforms to quell growing unease over programs | World news | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/09/obama-nsa-surveillance-reforms-press-conference
“The intelligence agencies say you can’t point to instances of abused authority.... The fact that the government is collecting all this information is itself a form of abuse. But even if you take their narrow definition of abuse, we don’t have the information to evaluate that. It’s all secret.”