Bipartisan Panel Urges End to NSA Phone Spying

A government task force is urging President Barack Obama to end the National Security Agency's bulk collection of Americans' telephone data in a new report released Thursday.

According to the Associated Press, the bipartisan Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board's recommendations are more sweeping than those recently made by the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, the president's task force.

The new report also calls for the NSA to purge its massive inventory of millions of Americans' phone records. Instead, it's recommending the NSA seek records directly from phone service providers using "existing legal authorities."

The PCLO Board shared parts of its report with the president before he unveiled his plans during a speech last week. But in that speech, President Obama said the bulk phone collection program would continue for the time being.