The independent review released Wednesday of the National
Security Agency's spy programs puts the onus on President Obama.
He has to explain to the American people how the collection of
metadata and other spying techniques are necessary tools to
combat terrorism, and if he can't, he's got to abandon them.
That will mean a massive overhaul of NSA operations, including
an end to the collection of Americans' telephone records. The
bigger question is whether the recommendations of the
presidential panel go far enough in reining in the federal
government's attacks on privacy, particularly as they affect
Silicon Valley's tech industry.  FILE - This June 6, 2013 file
photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA)
campus in Fort Meade, Md. ((AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File))
At stake is consumer trust in the privacy of all interactions
involving the Internet, from telephone calls to texts to emails
to the tracking of users' locations and photographs. Obama had
charged the panel with exploring the p