On the White House and HPSCI Proposals for Surveillance Reform

By now you've likely heard: the President will back a legislative proposal to end the NSA's bulk collection of telephony metadata.  And Congressmen Mike Rogers and Dutch Ruppersburger, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee, respectively, likewise unveiled their own NSA reform proposal this morning at a press conference.  You can add both bills to the already heaping stack of FISA-related proposals kicking around Congress. So far as the Administration and Rogers-Ruppersburger bills are concerned, there isn't much to for us to pore over.  The White House has yet to come forth with any proposed legislation; in the meantime, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, today called the President's plan "a worthy effort."  As for HPSCI, Marcy Wheeler has posted a "Discussion Draft" of the "End Bulk Collection Act of 2014;" this might or might not inform the "FISA Transparency and Modernization Act of 2014," which Reps. Rogers and Ruppersburger promoted earlier today.  Stay tuned. Update: The HPSCI proposal can be found here.