From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

Protecting national security and preserving privacy.

Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

President Obama issued new orders today after months of controversy over spying by the NSA.

Metadata from America's phone calls won't be housed at the NSA anymore.

Agents will need warrants from the intelligence court before they get access.

But it's not clear just where all that date is going

to be. In a long speech, the president called on Congress to help revise controversial intelligence

practices. We'll hear him make his case and get reaction from privacy advocates, intelligence hawks

and tech companies, all with competing interests. Today's talking point, temperatures of 109 degrees

threaten the health of tennis players at the Australian Open.

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Hello again, Warren. I'm on only back with To the Poet.

In President Obama's much-awaited speech on NSA spying today, he posed two major objectives,

protecting the nation from threats made possible by new technology, at the same time

upholding civil liberties and privacy protections enshrined in the Constitution.

We need to do so not only because it is right,

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