Wyden and Udall are among the lawmakers who will attend the meeting. | AP Photo, Reuters Obama invites lawmakers to meet on NSA

A group of House and Senate lawmakers concerned about the reach of the National Security Agency into Americans’ privacy will go to the White House on Thursday to discuss the program with the president, senators said Wednesday after meeting with the president.

A source with knowledge of the meeting said the attendees will include members both critical and supportive of the NSA’s data mining programs regarding phone and email records. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Mark Udall (D-Colo.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) will attend, as well as Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and ranking member Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.). House members attending include House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), ranking member Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) and Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.).


Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Obama talked about “the balance we are all trying seek between privacy and national security.”

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King said Obama was willing to consider proposals to alter the NSA program on Thursday that might reassure some critics but also brought up the recent Boston bombing as an example “where that NSA database that everybody’s worried about helped us identify whether there was a great plot.”

“He gets up every morning and has to read briefings that there are threats,” King said. Asked if Obama sounded willing to make changes, King remarked: “He said he will listen.”