President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, about the government shutdown. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a protracted dispute over Obama’s signature health care law reached a boiling point, forcing some 800,000 federal workers off the job. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) The Associated Press
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Maclean’s Live: Barack Obama on the National Security Agency
Live coverage of the U.S. president’s speech on the signals intelligence programs
President Barack Obama is expected to call for ending to the U.S. government’s control of phone data from millions of Americans, a senior administration official told the Associated Press. Here is live coverage of his remarks: