NSA Director Testifies To The U.S. Senate -- News Roundup

NSA Chief Defends Dual Cyber, Intel Roles -- Politico

Controversial surveillance practices that spilled into public view through a series of dramatic leaks last week have helped to avert “dozens of terrorist events” in recent years, National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander told a Senate committee Wednesday.

However, the longer the NSA director spoke before the Senate Appropriations Committee, the less clear it became just which surveillance programs he was crediting for those successes.

His answer came in response to a question from Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) about call-tracking surveillance conducted under Patriot Act Section 215.

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NSA Chief: Surveillance Has Stopped Dozens Of Potential Attacks -- Reuters
NSA chief: Surveillance helped stop "dozens" of threats -- CBS
NSA chief says data disrupted 'dozens' of plots -- BBC
NSA chief says surveillance programs have blocked 'dozens' of terror attacks against the U.S. -- Daily Mail
Surveillance Thwarted Dozens of Attacks, NSA Chief Says -- Bloomberg Businessweek
NSA General: Surveillance Has Disrupted 'Dozens' Of Terror Plots -- Huffington Post
NSA chief: Surveillance programs foiled ‘dozens’ of terrorist plots -- Washington Examiner
NSA says data mining helped thwart terror -- CNN
Senators grill NSA chief on surveillance -- USA Today
NSA director vows to explain surveillance programs, says they protect America, civil liberties -- FOX News
NSA chief: ‘We’re trying to be transparent here’ -- MSNBC
NSA chief: Surveillance programs protect Americans -- USA Today
'False': NSA Disputes Snowden Claim to Be Able to Tap Into Any Phone Call, Email -- Weekly Standard
NSA under 'rigorous' oversight, chief says -- Global Post/AFP
NSA ‘Committed’ to Privacy Rights, Director Says -- Wall Street Journal
NSA chief doesn’t know legal basis for surveillance program -- Washington Examiner
The Senate Presses the NSA's Buttons on the Record, Even While Trying Not To -- Atlantic Wire