'LOTS OF UNCERTAINTY' - Hill Leaders Wary of Obama's Course on NSA

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Congressional leaders on Sunday said a key part of President Obama’s effort to overhaul U.S. surveillance will not work while another said the president didn’t go far enough to protect Americans’ privacy.

The leaders of both the House and Senate intelligence committees pushed back against the president’s assertion that the government should cede control of how Americans’ phone records are stored.

Obama, under pressure to calm the controversy over government spying, said Friday he wants bulk phone data stored outside the government to reduce the risk that the records will be abused.

However, Obama did not say who should have control of Americans’ data and instead has directed the attorney general and director of national intelligence to find a solution within 60 days.

Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said that decision had intensified a sense of uncertainty about the country’s ability to root out terrorist threats.

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