Report that NSA collected French phone records causing diplomatic headache for U.S. --- A report Monday that the National Security Agency vacuumed up more than 70 million French phone records in one month left the Obama administration scrambling once again to explain spy practices that have angered allies and dented the United States’ reputation overseas. -- To assuage the French and other allies, the Obama administration is pointing to a White House review of intelligence-gathering practices that the president ordered in response to foreign and domestic criticism of U.S. surveillance operations. - More, Washingtonpost