Obama: ‘We Can And Must Be More Transparent’

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 19, 2013. Obama says black Americans feel pain after the Trayvon Martin verdict ... President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 19, 2013. Obama says black Americans feel pain after the Trayvon Martin verdict because of a "history that doesn't go away." Obama spoke in a surprise appearance Friday at the White House, his first time appearing for a statement on the verdict since it was issued last Saturday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) MORE LESS
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President Barack Obama said in a Friday press conference that the United States “can and must be more transparent” in gathering intelligence for national security. 

Obama listed transparency as one of four steps his administration would take to address privacy and civil liberties with respect to surveillance. The president said he directed the intelligence community to “make public as much information about these programs as possible” and go further with declassifying information about National Security Agency surveillance programs.

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