Officials Consider Changes to Spying Policy
November 01, 2013
NSA Director General Keith Alexander (2nd L) testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington October 29, 2013.
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European officials have traveled to Washington seeking more information about American spying programs.
On Tuesday, the director of the National Security Agency, Army General Keith Alexander, defended the NSA at a hearing in Congress. He denied accusations that the NSA collected the records of millions of French and Spanish telephone calls.
“Those screenshots that show, or at least lead people to believe that we, NSA, or the United States, collected that information is false. And it's false that it was collected on European citizens. It was neither.”
The accusations follow information leaks by Edward Snowden, the former NSA contract worker who has been given asylum in Russia.
General Alexander said the agency has received targeted information from phone calls by some Europeans, through NATO allies.
“The sources of the metadata include data legally collected by NSA under its various authorities, as well as data provided to NSA by foreign partners. To be perfectly clear, this is not information that we collected on European citizens.”
Metadata would include details about a call, but not the contents of the call. But earlier reports said intelligence officials listened to the calls of as many as 35 world leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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