The head of the US National Security Agency on Wednesday defended his organisation and dismissed as ‘completely false’ reports that the spy agency collected data on millions of phone calls in Europe.
‘The assertions by reporters in France, Le Monde, Spain, El Mundo, and Italy, L'Espresso, that NSA collected tens of millions of phone calls are completely false,’ the NSA Director General Keith Alexander, said.
‘They cite as evidence screen shots of the results of a Web tool used for data management purposes.’
‘But both they and the person who stole the classified data did not understand what they were looking at,’ Alexander told US lawmakers at a Congressional hearing.
‘The assertions by reporters in France, Le Monde, Spain, El Mundo, and Italy, L'Espresso, that NSA collected tens of millions of phone calls are completely false,’ the NSA Director General Keith Alexander, said.
‘They cite as evidence screen shots of the results of a Web tool used for data management purposes.’
‘But both they and the person who stole the classified data did not understand what they were looking at,’ Alexander told US lawmakers at a Congressional hearing.