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Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg   True, Obama announced that he would
“end” the metadata-collection program “as it currently exists.”
But he never explained how, ignoring the recommendations of his
own handpicked review group and instead asking his
administration for new technical options on the bulk storage of
data by the end of March.  If you remember the president's
promise to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, you know
that “ending” something means doing it subject to realistic
constraints -- which may keep the program from ending at all.
And if you don't have short-term amnesia, you'll recall that the
Obama administration isn't exactly bristling with skilled high-
tech advisers who can build complicated new solutions to
technological problems.  The president must have realized that
skeptics might be unimpressed by a promise to try to do
something unspecified at an indeterminate future time. So he
added some reforms related to the bulk collection o