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NSA chief: Journalists must be stopped
NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander
Fri Oct 25, 2013 2:25PM GMT
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Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the embattled National Security Agency, is calling on governments to stop journalists from public disclosure of his agency’s secret documents.
"I think it’s wrong that that newspaper reporters have all these documents, the 50,000-whatever they have and are selling them and giving them out as if these-you know it just doesn’t make sense," Alexander said in an interview with the Defense Department's "Armed With Science" blog.
"We ought to come up with a way of stopping it. I don’t know how to do that. That’s more of the courts and the policymakers but, from my perspective, it’s wrong to allow this to go on," the NSA director added.
Gen. Alexander accused journalists of "selling" classified documents on the NSA’s surveillance activities worldwide, insisting that media reports on his agency were a “dramatic, convenient lie.”
The interview was posted Thursday, the same day The Guardian reported that the US monitored telephone conversations of 35 world leaders after obtaining their phone numbers from other US government officials.
The report, based on documents disclosed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, indicated that officials from the White House, Pentagon and State Department gave the world leaders’ phone numbers to the NSA.
The new revelation came just one day after German chancellor Angela Merkel accused Washington of tapping her mobile phone.
On Wednesday, the White House rejected the report, saying President Barack Obama had pledged to Merkel that the US was not monitoring her communications and would not do so in the future.
At a press conference on Thursday, White House spokesman Jay Carney acknowledged that the NSA revelations caused frictions between Washington and its allies.
"The revelations have clearly caused tension in our relationships with some countries, and we are dealing with that through diplomatic channels,” Carney said.
The documents disclosed over the past few months reveal a troubling picture of a spy agency that has sought and won sweeping powers to collect data on Americans and foreign nationals without anyone having full technical understanding of the process.
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