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30. NSA chief on spying programs: 'There is no other way to connect the dots'

Wed Dec 11, 2013, 10:57 PM

Dec 2013

Keith Alexander insists bulk data collection stops terror attacks and says he would be 'failing' America if the practice stopped

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/11/nsa-chiefs-keith-alexander-senate-surveillance

National Security Agency director Keith Alexander, in an indication of the political crisis roiling his agency, compared the bulk collection on Wednesday to "holding a hornet's nest," but said he did not know how to detect future domestic terrorist attacks without swooping up the phone records of every American.

"There is no other way we know of to connect the dots," Alexander told a nearly empty Senate judiciary committee hearing that was at turns heated, probing and humorous.

Remember when a number of DU posters vehemently espoused that the NSA wasnt spying on Americans. They desparately tried to bully discussions in attempts to shut down discussions. Even today those same posters openly disparage Snowden.

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