Reporting from washington, im katty kay. Americas surveillance practices will be curtailed. We speak to the former head of the National Security agency. And the great train robber dies at the age of 86. We look back at his famous heist and his years on the run. Welcome to our viewers on Public Television here in america and also around the globe. The white house released a report from a president ial task force calling for more than 40 proposed reforms to the National Security agency surveillance programs. Keep collecting massive amounts of phone data but it should be stored by a thirdparty. President obama will address the report in january. I spoke to the former nsa director a short time ago. 46 points of recommendations that the board has come forward with. Lets start with a collection of phone call data from americans. The 215 program from the patriot act. Those are all the phone records to, from, when, how long. All calls made to and from the United States. That this data not be h
Force calling for more than 40 proposed reforms to the National Security agency surveillance programs. Keep collecting massive amounts of phone data but it should be stored by a thirdparty. President obama will address the report in january. I spoke to the former nsa director a short time ago. 46 points of recommendations that the board has come forward with. Lets start with a collection of phone call data from americans. The 215 program from the patriot act. Those are all the phone records to, from, when, how long. All calls made to and from the United States. That this data not be held by the government, but by a third party. Either the phone companies or a to be determined thirdparty. And not without the specific permission of the fisa court for that query. That is different from where the andrnment holds the data can query the data on a reasonable suspicion. The government did that 200 times last year. Communityntelligence has to tell the president is how much of an operational imp
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John Dixon and his partner Christine in Tairua. Dixon says he made a dick of himself and lost his cool but the speeding boats had been building for months. Dixon is now infamous for his part in a fierce boat confrontation on January 23, where the video of the incident made headlines. It involved him following and ramming into a speeding boat, where expletives flew between him and two female occupants. One was Tairua School deputy principal Catherine Browning, who ended up jumping out of the boat and swinging an oar at him.
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At his trial the court heard he had severe anger issues, the NZ Herald reports, and a tendency to over-react to threats, teasing or any excitement .
If an offender released on parole breaches their conditions or poses an undue risk to the safety of the community, a probation officer or police officer can apply to the Parole Board to have them recalled to continue serving their sentence in prison. Following the incident at Tairua, an application was made to recall Dixon. An application to recall life parolee John Fedrick Dixon was received by the New Zealand Parole Board last week, a Parole Board spokesperson told Newshub.