The White House announced Wednesday the release of the findings from a presidential advisory committee review of NSA surveillance practices.

Though progressive analysts slammed the review board for being “typical Washington DC whitewash,” one official described the recommendations as “significantly more far-reaching than many expected.”

Reporting on leaked details, the Washington Post writes that among the “sweeping technical reforms,” the panel advises that the NSA no longer be entrusted with the phone database, estimated by some to contain more than 1 trillion records, according to an official briefed on the review.

The Post continues:

The Guardian is live blogging the release of the panel report.

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Initially, the White House had intended to release the report in January. Following leaked details of the draft late last week, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the Obama administration is making the report public so that “Americans could judge the contents of the findings themselves.”

It is unclear whether the White House will accept any of the panel’s ideas. Some U.S. officials have reportedly said the Obama administration has indicated it is “not likely to endorse substantive changes to the phone records program,” despite the Monday ruling by a U.S. federal court that the U.S. government “almost certainly” violated the constitution by mass collecting phone use data.

Even before the offical release of the report, Twitter users have been offering reactions:

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