Intelligence Committee Leaders Defend NSA Surveillance (ABC News)
NSA Chief Lobbies Lawmakers To Kill Amendment That Would Limit Surveillance -- FOX News
The head of the National Security Agency made an urgent visit to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to try to dissuade lawmakers from voting for an amendment that would rein in their mass collection of phone records.
Gen. Keith Alexander met privately with Republicans, and later Democrats, to voice the agency's concerns about an amendment to a major defense bill that would halt the blanket collection of records, including telephone call records, for people not already subject to an investigation.
Part of the concern is that even entertaining the amendment on the floor could expose certain programs.
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My Comment: It is rare to see the NSA lobby so openly to on keeping it's surveillance programs. Personally .... I hope Congress does put limits on the NSA .... but .... it would not surprise me if in the end Congress "caves in" and the NSA succeeds in getting their way.
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