US intelligence agrees to reveal if specific citizens were snooped on in 30 days

During a US Senate meeting, held to discuss the implications of the NSA leaks and decide the further course of action, NSA chief James Clapper reportedly agreed to reveal in the next 30 days if specific American citizens were targeted in the alleged surveillance programme.

During the session, which included whistleblower Edward Snowden's supporters and critics, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) extracted hard promises of information from the NSA, CIA, and FBI.

According to The Verge, Clapper has agreed to reveal whether intelligence agencies have ever searched through records for information about specific US citizens.

Meanwhile, CIA director John Brennan would answer within a week whether the limits of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act apply to his agency and FBI head James Comey would lay out what burden of proof FBI agents must meet before tracking cellphone location data from either apps or cell towers.

Recently, US President Barack Obama passed an order to let a yet-to-be-announced third-party to store users' telephone data, to which Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) expressed his disagreement at the meeting.

Rockefeller said that moving the database to an outside part would take away a 'core government function' without protecting privacy.