At Senate Hearing, NSA Director Defends Spying Program -- Washington Post
Senior government officials on Wednesday continued to defend the National Security Agency’s collection of billions of Americans’ phone records as vital to national security, despite skepticism from some senior lawmakers who pressed for an assessment of the program’s utility.
“We can’t go back to a pre-9/11 moment,” the NSA’s director, Gen. Keith Alexander, told the Senate Judiciary Committee, asserting that ending the bulk collection of data on phone calls would risk leaving the intelligence agencies without information that could avert a terrorist attack.
“There is no other way that we know of to connect the dots,” he said. “. . . Taking the program off the table from my perspective is absolutely not the right thing to do.”
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