NSA Director Is 'Open To Changes'

 

NSA Chief Strongly Defends Govt. Surveillance Programs, But Suggests He's Open To Changes -- CNN

The director of the National Security Agency on Thursday offered a full-throated defense of a domestic monitoring program that has been at the center of government leaks, while also tacitly supporting an idea to dramatically change the controversial snooping.

In a public interview at the Aspen Security Forum, NSA Director Keith Alexander addressed the leaks carried out by Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked classified documents to the media.

At the heart of the Snowden leaks is a program that collects information about all calls in the United States. The information collected, called metadata, includes duration, time of the call and the numbers that are party to the call, all of which are stored in a government database. But what if private phone companies - instead of the government - ran the database?  

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My Comment: I guess the NSA Director is starting to feel the heat from the politicians and .... more importantly .... from the public.  

Update: NSA director suggests phone companies, not government, could store calling records -- Washington Post