Obama promises review of NSA spying program, possible reforms --- President Obama signaled Friday that he may halt the National Security Agency’s collection and storage of millions of Americans’ phone records and instead require phone companies to hold the data. -- Speaking at a White House news conference near the end of a very difficult year, Obama said that he would have a “pretty definitive statement” on proposed NSA reforms in January, following his family’s annual holiday break in Hawaii. - More, washingtonpost, at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-concludes-tough-year-with-press-conference/2013/12/20/7840204c-6991-11e3-a0b9-249bbb34602c_story.html