Ex-National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander (Reuters / Doug Kapustin)
“We’re At Greater Risk”: Q. & A. with General Keith Alexander -- Mattathias Schwartz, New Yorker
Since Edward Snowden’s revelations about government surveillence, we know more about how the National Security Agency has been interpreting Section 215 of the Patriot Act and Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. We’ve learned some new words —“bulk metadata,” “selector,” “reasonable articulable suspicion,” “emphatic-access restriction”—but we don’t really know how much of this works in practice.
The intelligence community isn’t used to explaining itself in public, but over the past few months, with much prodding by Congress and the press, it has taken some small, tentative steps. Last week, I spent an hour with General Keith B. Alexander, who retired in March after eight years as the director of the N.S.A. The forces pushing for omnivorous data collection are larger than any one person, but General Alexander’s role has been significant. We met on Wednesday morning, in the conference room of a public-relations firm in the Flatiron District. He is a tall man with a firm handshake and steady eyes who speaks rapidly and directly.
Here are excerpts from the interview.
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Update #1: Ex-NSA chief: Odds of terror attack are growing -- The Hill
Update #2: ‘A lot more terror attacks coming our way:’ former NSA chief -- New York Daily News
My Comment: Here is a "heads-up" on what the former NSA chief believes is the future .... Former NSA Director: Big Data Is the Future -- NextGov
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