Re:Sen. Rand Paul says he's suing over NSA policies
by dllthomas on Saturday January 04, 2014 @05:06PM
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The president does set administrative policy for executive agencies, and can certainly tell them they need to stay further inside whatever bounds Congress has laid out. Of course, that can be trivially reversed by the next guy...
The NSA is under the DoD. So he needs to start by firing Chuck Hagel, then his Deputy, then General Alexander, et al.
That is going to do more damage than it helps. The NSA isn't black and white no matter how much people on HN have recently decided it to be so.
Law changes and reforms within the NSA are the only sane way to fix issues you don't like without doing more harm than good, and the President just doesn't unilaterally get to pass new laws on his whim.