Here Are The Recommendations From Obama's Panel On How To Reform The NSA

REUTERS/Jason ReedU.S. President Barack Obama meets with newly-elected mayors about job creation in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, December 13, 2013.

The White House has released more than 40 recommendations of changes and reforms to National Security Agency surveillance programs from an independent panel commissioned by President Barack Obama after the disclosures of NSA leak source Edward Snowden.

The headline of the five-person commission's report, which is more than 300 pages, is the recommendation that the NSA ends collection of information, or "metadata," on a vast array of phone calls in the United States. The panel recommends that the data is stored either by a private entity or by phone companies themselves.

The release of the report comes two days after a U.S. District Court judge ruled that the program is likely unconstitutional. He granted a stay in the case to allow for an appeal from the government.

Obama established the commission in late August. He is still reviewing the report's recommendations and is likely to decide on implementing some of its reforms in January.

We're still combing through the report, and will add more to this post.

You can see the full report below:

NSA panel report