WASHINGTON — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers on Sunday slammed President Obama’s plan to rein in the National Security Agency’s snooping programs, saying it caused “uncertainty” in spy agencies and left America vulnerable.
“Just in my conversations over the weekend with intelligence officials, this new level of uncertainty is already having a bit of an impact on our ability to protect Americans by finding terrorists who are trying to reach into the United States,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“What we got was lots of uncertainty,” said Rogers (R-Mich.).
In a speech Friday, Obama promised to stop spying on leaders of nations friendly to the United States and to require additional approval from a secret court before rifling through data on Americans’ phone calls and e-mails.