Keeping us safe

Brad DeLong doesn't think much of Obama's 'changes' to his surveillance policies.  He thinks that if Obama was really serious he could have accomplished five years ago the proposals he talked about on Friday; he had the power and did not need Congressional approval.  Here's DeLong:

He could have:

• had the government's presentations to FISA include arguments from an advocatus diaboli
• created a task force
• established internal executive-branch safeguards against abuse of §215
• released his own administration's justifications
• required the NSA to explain what it was doing.

  Words, words, words!