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Posted on 02/17/2014 5:24:34 PM PST by Nachum
The National Security Agency (NSA) will send its recommendations for where to store telephone metadata records to President Obama later this week, the outgoing NSA director said Friday in a speech defending his agency’s surveillance tactics. General Keith Alexander, who is retiring as NSA director next month, did not say where he thinks the data should be held. President Obama recommended on January 17th that the government stop holding Americans’ phone call records, but pushing the data out to either telephone companies or to a third party are both seen as having significant drawbacks.
“The good news is we have some ideas that we’re going to push off to the inter-agency that they’re working to get to the president next week,” Alexander said during a speech on Friday attended by BGR. “I can’t reveal that here because that’s still going through inter-agency review.”
President Obama directed the intelligence community to develop a proposal for having an external party hold the telephone metadata while still allowing NSA analysts to search it for possible terrorist connections. Obama set a deadline of March 28th, which is when the metadata program will need to be reauthorized by the surveillance court.
Alexander warned about the growing threat of cyber attacks and called for cybersecurity legislation. He noted that the financial sector was attacked over 340 times by distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks from fall of 2012 to spring of 2013. He also said that the systems that run America’s power grids are increasingly attacked with “occasional successful exfiltration of data.”
“We have to have government and industry work together [on cybersecurity legislation], so that if industry is being exploited or attacked by somebody, they can tell us,” Alexander said.
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“It’s not our mission to spy on everyone in the world.”
No, just conservative Americans.
The list, Ping
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Beat me to it, darn you...
It's more of a hobby.
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
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A well paid one.
(Nice work.)
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Yeah, we don’t spy on Elbonia. Unless Dogbert asks us to.
so this is what retirement feels like
Not everyone in the world has a cell phone.... Yet.
The Bamster recommended that the Govt stop holding American’s cell phone records............well, at least he didn’t GUARANTEE that. If he did, we would KNOW he was lying!! /s
Essentially.
I could hold the records for them.
Exactly, their job is to be spies for the Rat Party.
“It’s not our mission to spy on everyone in the world.”
Sure it is. :-)
[We do, but] it’s not our mission to spy on everyone in the world.
No, we only have to spy on Congressmen and Supreme Court Justices. The rest is for fun.
and yet they do
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