NSA Chief Keith Alexander Step Down And Avoids Mentioning Snowden In His Retirement Speech

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NSA Chief Keith Alexander Avoids Snowden In Retirement Speech -- The Guardian

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With minimal reference to Edward Snowden, the former contractor who ushered in a new and unwelcome era for the National Security Agency, General Keith Alexander ended his NSA directorship and his 39-year army career on Friday.

Feted at a retirement ceremony attended by intelligence colleagues, legislators, fellow officers and White House chief of staff Denis McDonough, Alexander hailed the NSA by quoting General Douglas MacArthur’s musings on patriotism, morality and service from his 1962 retirement speech at West Point, which Alexander called “especially applicable with all that has gone on in the past year”.

It was the only reference to Snowden that Alexander permitted himself in a brief speech.

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My Comment: The person who has occupied all of your time for the past year with the biggest intelligence leak in U.S. history and who has also helped hasten your departure from the NSA .... and say nothing?!?!?! That is more revealing than if he had said anything on Edward Snowden.