Maclean’s Live: Barack Obama on the National Security Agency

Live coverage of the U.S. president’s speech on the signals intelligence programs

<p>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&#8217;s signature health care law reached a boiling point, forcing some 800,000 federal workers off the job.  (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)</p>

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)

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: