well they certainly asked the questions i asked members of the delegation about keith alexander march in congress where he said there was no mass collection of data on whatever sharing that was european intelligence agencies themselves handed out the information to the n.s.a. now on camera members of the e.u. delegation would say you alexander made a statement just yesterday and they didn't have time to process those allegations but they did say they had been trying to get answers from washington and massive bailouts of european citizens for months and there was silence and one of these days they finally did get the chance to meet the director of the n.s.a. himself keith alexander and ask him about the spying programs the answers that he gave not satisfied that delegation. going to get from information. on the question of games or to reduce and of course not to have information about. medical cannot be just to fight against. well the chair of european parliament's foreign affairs committee whom i also had the chance to speak with said alexander talked to them about european agencies s

congressman keith alexander says it helps keep terrorism in check. >> all eyes on kathleen sebelius as she is set to defend the affordable care act in a congressional hearing. >> one year later superstorm sandy is remembered. it was one of the most destructive and costly disasters to hit the united states. >> the ongoing war in syria - children diagnosed with polio because they don't have access to adequate health care and critical vaccinations. [ ♪ theme ] >> hello, welcome to al jazeera america. no apology nor excuses from the nation's top spy chief. the head of the national security agency denied reports of phone tapping of foreign citizens and told house members the nsa would rather take a beating in the media than give up a program that protects americans from terrorists. >> the national security agency says chiefs did not illegally tapped. they revealed rare details of america's intelligence gathering techniques. >> confident and almost defiant top spy chiefs made no apologies before the house intelligence committee. they defended the job the agencies do to keep america and her a

nsa chief keith alexander dismissed charges of massive infringement on privacy. >> the press claimed evidence of thousands of privacy violation, it is false and misleading. >> the agency claims it is not required to restrict contact lists belonging to speaks fitted foreign investment targets. >> is there a reason for all of

nsa chief keith alexander dismissed charges of massive

keith alexander has led the agency since 2005 and longest tenure ever for an nsa director. folks say the decision to leave was long planned and not reaction to recent revelations about surveillance practices. >>> the nsa is apparently playing a key role in the cia's drone program overseas.

keith alexander. we'll show you that at 1:30 this afternoon. an apology by marilyn tavener. she was testifying before a sharply critical house committee. >>> it's been one year since hurricane sandy hit the new york and new jersey coast lines. the cleanup tapped to exceed $65 billion. >> i'm dave warren with your national forecast. two different extremes between the west coast and the east coast, winter storm out west, many winter weather advisories and storm warnings in effect, dumping a lot of snow over the montana area, that storm still centered over nevada but beginning to movies. cold air is behind it, warm air ahead of it. 80s and 70s from memphis to houston, billings, montana, 44. outlook for thursday, halloween, looks like we'll have the warm air coming up over the great lakes as it starts to push east and rain and colder temperatures there in the northern plains as the cold air comes behind it. what to expect, in new york, rain wednesday and thursday could linger into friday. temperatures upper 60s loafer 70s. drying out by the weekend. del. >> dave warren, thank yo

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spying agency behind sweeping global surveillance is to leave his job keith alexander is a. says' longest serving director and has vigorously defended the snooping programs as lawful and essential for national security is a part next spring is likely to have been spurred by the snowden leaks as more important than a explains the man who has made indiscriminate global surveillance and data gathering part of the fabric of america is leaving his position general keith alexander director of the national security agency is reportedly stepping down from his reign within the next six months it would be hard to deny that this unexpected exodus would be happening if not for whistleblower edward snowden general alexander's eight year tenure at the n.s.a. came under a worldwide criticism earlier this year after snowden a former n.s.a. contractor revealed details about the n.s.a.'s global gathering of telephone e-mail and social media data foreign embassies the united nations and even heads of state were allegedly targeted by america's dragnet surveillance political activist and author

surveillance and data gathering part of the fabric of america is leaving his position general keith alexander director of the national security agency is reportedly stepping down from his reign within the next six months it would be hard to deny that this unexpected exodus would be happening if not for whistleblower edward snowden general alexander's eight year tenure at the n.s.a. came under a worldwide criticism earlier this year after snowden a former n.s.a. contractor revealed details about the n.s.a.'s global gathering of telephone e-mail and social media data foreign embassies the united nations and even heads of state were allegedly targeted by america's dragnet surveillance political activist and author eugene puryear says general alexander's resignation is more like a fall from grace i think that the revelations from snowden are playing a big role here i mean i think for them to say that this is just sort of a random thing is is sort of absurd i mean it seemed like just a few months ago that keith alexander was being fed it is this great important general who had done all these big f

the organization's covert surveillance operations is due to quit early next year army general keith alexander who is the emissaries longest serving chief has come under intense pressure since whistleblower adults noted revealed the vast scale of government snooping artie's marine aboard i as the details the man who has made indiscriminate global surveillance and data gathering part of the fabric of america is leaving his position general keith alexander director of the national security agency is reportedly stepping down from his reign within the next six months it would be hard to deny that this unexpected exodus would be happening if not for whistleblower edward snowden general alexander's eight year tenure at the n.s.a. came under a worldwide criticism earlier this year after snowden a former n.s.a. contractor. revealed details about the n.s.a.'s global gathering of telephone e-mail and social media data foreign embassies the united nations and even the heads of states were allegedly targeted by america's dragnet surveillance political activist and author eugene per year says general alexa

tony romm, we had a video together put together by the pentagon featuring nsa director keith alexandera 30-minute interview he did with the pentagon's armed with science blogger. what do you make of that effort? guest: alexander has been on offense for quite some time. with each appearance, each panel discussion -- we had him at politico for our event -- alexander has been especially critical of media. yes question did -- he has questioned journalists, questionably, raised the idea that journalists are not doing due diligence in getting the sense of how the programs work and how the nsa uses his -- it uses its authority. that department of defense video really confirms that. that said, despite the optics, we do know one thing, that alexander plans to leave his post sometime in the next few months and that will touch off another fight on o, especially for those who want to see the nsa not only with more oversight but determining his successor on cyber command as well. romm, technology reporter for politico, thanks for your time. guest: thanks for having me. host: now we turn true all of

intelligence worker involved in the spying operation, he said nsa chief keith alexander informed obama in person about the surveillance in 2010. the paper quoted the source as saying that obama did not stop the operation back then, but let it continue. the article said they increased the surveillance to include the contents of merkel's text messages. the agency then started tapping a new, supposedly bug-proof cell phone she acquired this past summer. media reports say obama apologized to merkel when she called him on wednesday. the president told merkel he would have stopped the bugging had he known about it. specs spokespersons for the nsa have denied the allegations. the agency said in a statement in beijing on sunday that nsa chief alexander never had talks with president obama about its spying activities on people, including merkel in 2010. a german weekly magazine has disclosed the details of allegations that u.s. intelligence services secretly collected information worldwide. the report says u.s. agents installed spying equipment at u.s. embassies and consulates. the latest issue

. >> director keith alexander. >> reporter: demand for intelligence gathering reform are growing on capitol hill over the wake of revelations of massive information gathering. there has been crafted buy partisan legislation to end the collection of puck phone records and the government only focus on foreigners who pose threats. 12 years later the continuing disclosures of nsa surveillance has pushed them to try to rein in the broad sweep of intelligence gathering. appearing on pbs last night. >> there has to be a balance between privacy and security. the nsa and their supporters in the congress have said let's forget about privacy. let's forget about civil liberties. i can't do that. what has made america a different country is our court reports for these types of issues. what the nsa has been doing is a lack of oversight and has destroyed trust with our allieser particularly those in europe. >> front and center in a rare public hearing with the head of the nsa, general keith alexander and head of intelligence james clapper. he did not denial gas stations that the u.s. lived in on the priva

right now and also head of cyber warfare keith alexander has a long record of not telling the truth he lied even before james rice in revealed the extent of n.s.a. surveillance now alexander pretended that there were fifty four terrorists cases that affected america that well for oil that war for trade because of n.s.a.'s collection turns out under oath he had to it well maybe one somebody said well possibly too well it may be that he was maybe ten it's nothing it's some somebody sending a couple thousand dollars to a terrorist group in somalia i think so their whole buncha lies here and they have to be lies because they're unconstitutional on their face and now i think people like patrick leahy and others are beginning to feel the heat from the people who don't want to be subjected to these lies if you're going to do this kind of thing you should level with the american people that's clearly what they're doing the president does he know is he lying deliberately or are they giving him what's called plausible denial him to do they not tell him these things i suspect that might be the ca

right now and also head of cyber warfare keith alexander has a long record of not telling the truth he lied even before james rice revealed the extent of n.s.a. surveillance now alexander pretended that there were fifty four terrorists cases that affected america that were for oil that were that were thwarted because of n.s.a.'s collection turns out under oath he had to it well maybe one somebody said well possibly too well if he was maybe ten it's nothing it's some somebody sending a couple thousand dollars to a terrorist group in somalia i think so their whole buncha lies here and they have to be lies because they're unconstitutional on their face and now i think people like patrick leahy and others are beginning to feel the heat from the people who don't want to be subjected to these lies if you're going to do this kind of thing you should level with the american people that's clearly what they're doing the president does he know is he lying to live. giving him what's called plausible denial to do they not tell him these things i suspect that might be the case also weiss why would b

the nsa past rector general keith alexander will be departing from the surveillance organization withinw months. reuters reports that alexander will retire by the upcoming march or april while his civilian deputy will leave by the end of the year. alexander's eight years at the nsa have recently been overshadowed by the revelations from edward snowden which showed that the organization has been collecting data and conducting wide-ranging surveillance on u.s. citizens. speaking of that, this week, we learned of another bulk data collection program being run out of the nsa. based on documents provided by edward snowden, the nsa is collecting and storing millions of personal e-mail address books and instant messaging buddy lists, including those belonging to americans. basically, the way it works is someone logs into their yahoo! or gmail or facebook account, and the company's servers, which are often located overseas, transfer the lists to them across the internet. it is in this transit that data links housed overseas that the nsa scoops out that information. since this collection is happ

and they got nothing keith alexander told members of the e.u. delegation that they were not spying on european citizens on a massive scale obviously there is no way of checking it up with some members of that he says this is sort of like trying to get some information. don't clarify. the situation. we are lies the mass of the violence can not be based on the question against the terrorists and of course not to. have information about telephone or fungal or medical they cannot be justified in the fight against terrorism here to the figures we have seen the europeans have helped him to collect information about as a regions of afghanistan yemen and so on not overall. figures. in germs in germany due to the french if the german troops have done. it so kiss alexander told them whatever intelligence european agencies are sharing with the n.s.a. is from war zones again no way of checking any of that so it was just a symbolic gesture on the part of the delegation to ask those questions well they definitely need to show european citizens that their repr

right now and also head of cyber warfare keith alexander has a long record of not telling the truth he lied even before james rice and revealed the extent of n.s.a. surveillance now alexander pretended that there were fifty four terrorists cases that affected america that will for oil that war that were thwarted because of n.s.a.'s collection turns out under oath he had to it well maybe one somebody said well possibly two well it may be that he was maybe ten it's nothing it's a some somebody sending a couple thousand dollars to a terrorist group in somalia i think so their whole buncha lies here and they have to be lies because they're unconstitutional on their face and now i think people like patrick leahy and others are beginning to feel the heat from the people who don't want to be subjected to these lies if you're going to do this kind of thing you should level with the american people that's clearly what they're doing the president does he know is he lying deliberately or are they giving him what's called plausible denial him to do they not tell him these things i suspect that mig

right now and also head of cyber warfare keith alexander has a long record of not telling the truth he lied even before james ration revealed the extent of initiation of valence now alexander pretended that there were fifty four terrorists cases that affected america that were for oil that were that were thwarted because of n.s.a.'s collection turns out under oath he had to it well maybe one somebody said well possibly too well because he was maybe too. and it's nothing it's a coup some somebody sending a couple thousand dollars to a terrorist group in somalia i think so their whole buncha lies here and they have to be lies because they're unconstitutional on their face and now i think people like patrick leahy and others are beginning to feel the heat from the people who don't want to be subjected to these lies if you're going to do this kind of thing you should level with the american people that's clearly what they're doing the president does he know is he lying deliberately or are they giving him what's called plausible denial have to do they not tell him these things i suspect tha

as i said, keith alexander at a bloomberg conference has just denied it. do you know anything about this? >> no, and i have every reason to believe general alexander. so far virtually every story that's come out from the snowden leaks about the nsa has been proven either to be phoney or trivial. >> well, not the angela merkel leak for sure. there's been a lot that's been proved. what has not been proved or has been denied now is the mass data collection in spain and in france. that's been clarified over the last couple of days. >> i can't confirm whether or not angela merkel was being surveilled or not. but the nsa has been doing its job. the nsa has done more to protect germany than the german army has over the last 50 years. let's be real. in the world today, leaders are spied upon. they attempted it against our president, against our cabinet officials, against our leaders. going back into, you know, german history, when you had communist spies, officials in the government. you had schroder going back ten years ago. he and the russians were forming an al

director general keith alexander will be departing from the surveillance organization within the next few months reuters reports that alexander were tired by the upcoming march or april while his civilian deputy chris engle is will leave by the end of the year alexander's eight years at the n.s.a. have recently been over overshadowed by the revelations from leaker edward snowden which showed that the organization has been collecting data and conducting wide reaching surveillance on u.s. citizens speaking of that this week we learned of another bulk data collection program being run out of the n.s.a. now based on documents provided by edward snowden the n.s.a. is collecting and storing millions of personal e-mail address books and instant messaging buddy lists including those belonging to americans now basically the way it works is someone logs into their you yahoo or g. mail or facebook account those company's servers which are often located overseas transferred the user's address book and buddy list of them across the internet now it's in this transit that data links housed overseas

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coming year do you think that has anything to do with the snowden leaks oh absolutely not only keith alexander but his buddy chris inglis they're both leaving to spend more time with their families which is frankly ok with me i'd rather them spend more time with their own families than with my family and just one just to wrap it up i wanted to ask you about the award that that snowden received the sam adams integrity award i don't think a lot of people know what it is can you just talk a little bit about it and i should mention you received the award back in two thousand and eleven sure sam adams associates are a collection of former cia intelligence analysts and operatives who have decided to bestow this award on other people who have showed courage and integrity and bravery from the intelligence community often but not always they happen to be whistleblowers who've revealed truths that are either embarrassing or frankly illegal to the united states but in the public interest to know and these people as not just for people in the u.s. or been a number of recipients from other countries absolu

all that statement says is that keith alexander did not discuss this with president obama. >> hish's want's interesting, though. we know that germany is now sending ang intelligence team to d.c. >> that's a great question. the white house has acknowledged na they know that they're very upset about this. we'll see what the administration has said. >> when you mentioned what jeremy wger germany was saying, were you talking about the interior minister? >> that's right. one of the things he said is that is very possible that the united states broke the law. braking the law wu one of the things. but, also, our confidence has been shaking. >> we're going to talk about michael rogers now. he's going to talk exclusively to cnn. cnn's state of the union with candy crowley, just how damages are these revelations? >> welt o well, i think the bigger news story would be if the united states intelligence services weren't trying to collect information that would protect u.s. interests home and abroad. so you think it was entirely appropriate? >> i would tell you this. it's not an exact, correct int

chief keith alexander has said that they are critical counterterrorism tools and that ultimately quote you need the haystack to find the needle. so do you miss the good old days when things have stopped since when things were the real deal and not all filler or all crop well those days are long gone and now we're in the crop era residents laurie harvest explains. this story is full of crap and i apologize but we're fed so much crap by our corporations and government every minute of every day and i just can't take it anymore a recent paper published in the american journal of medicine just studied what's inside two different brands of fast food chicken nuggets the study found that the nuggets contained only forty to fifty percent meat for must follow the remaining ingredients that make up half or more of the nuggets they studied were added fact the life was full the nerves glands in and the head didn't you know what the worst part about this story is that it probably is the prizes exactly know why enough we are all so used to being fed crap that we just take it is that the way the world

keith alexander says they didn't conduct illegal activity, and told a house intelligence committee, that he would rather face a media bashing than give up a program that could stop a terror attack. >> one year after superstorm sandy, officials say more work is needed to rebuild. the hurricane caused $55 billion in damage. >> the dow jones hit a high on wednesday, closing up. investors are expecting the federal reserve to scale back plans in relation to the bond buy-back program. "consider this" is up next. >> one year after the superstorm sandy the eastern seaboard is still recovering. after billions were pledged for the recovery why are so many people still homeless and why has so little of the money basketbalbasketballbeenspent. >> president obama's tenure has seen it's share of controversy. how is his approval rating so high is he the second teflon president. >> and hard-core fans spend countless hours into the fantasticsy football league should they be able to spend money and b bye buy shares. >> we begin with superstorm sandy. 12 months after the storm batter theebattered the northe

they are meeting with the nsa director, keith alexander who will be testifying later today on intelligence. they will be grilled, both of them, alexander as well as james clapper on the extent of america's spying operations and there will also be the introduction of legislation to scale back to modify the patriot act. this legislation will be introduced by the author of the patriot act, and among other things it will put restrictions on the gathering of metadata, as well as refining the extent to which america can engage in foreign intelligence, and presumably that will take into account spying on foreign leaders. >> randall in a lot of instances what the public finds out concerns what goes on in the house intelligence committee isn't learned until decades later, but that being said what is the house saying about this latest brouhaha. >> that's an interesting point, because in the first place ordinarily we hear nothing from the administration or congress about intelligence matters. they are after all top secret issues, and usually the comment you get no comment. but now we have the house s

policymakers but from my perspective, it is wrong to allow this to go on. >> glenn greenwald, that was keith alexander>> first of all, what general alexander said there -- remember, he is probably the most powerful military official in the u.s. i think more or less everyone agrees on that. you didn't actually say newspapers should stop publishing, he said something more pernicious. he said "we," inning the government, should come up with ways to stop them from continuing to report. the courts in commerce or china figure out those ways. i cannot imagine in a minimally free country how courts and congress can get together and stop journalist from reporting these new stories the way that general alexander is calling for something to be done. an extraordinarily crpy and authoritarian expression of sentiment, i don't know what is. to think this is the person who democratic loyalists and republican authoritarians argue should be interested with this massive suspicionless spying system is stunning. who would ever trust anyone, let alone someone who has that instinct for the government to silence journalists

the director of national intelligence, james clapper, and national security director keith alexander told the committee the content of phone calls was secret in a lock box, unless there is a link to terrorism. and that, they say, is rare. >> there would only be looked at if we had reasonable and artic u la ble suspicious that we had connection to a foreign, al qaeda-related group, and look into the box. in 2012 we had 2088 such selectors, that we could look into that. that's it. of the billions of records, only 288. >> at the committee hearing there was relatively little discussion about allegations that the u.s. spied on america's allies. at the white house it was still a hot topic. protecty jay carney says president obama assured angela merkel there is not and will not be spying on her. this was the reaction when jay carney was asked about leaders of france and japan. >> i don't have anything more specific about specific alleged operation, or conversations that the president may or may not have had with foreign leaders. >> senator dianne fienstein the chair of the committee says it

we have a public session this afternoon with keith alexander. host: on that point, what do you take of the general taking to youtube and doing that interview with the blogger? it did not get a lot of media attention. guest: general examiner is trying to use all the tools he can. he wants to understand that we are not violating those limitations. quite frankly, it is innovative, using that particular model. having that out there so that anyone anytime, anywhere, can go to that and try to make their own decision as to what they think of him and his open straightforwardness, which i find him to be, for themselves. it gives an intimate look at what he does and those kinds of hope ithe did it and i gets plenty of attention and lots of hits, as they say. oft: we showed a little bit it earlier, we will show some more later on. shelby tweets what you have been talking about congressman -- let's hear from wendy in lynnwood, washington. republican caller. hello. have never called here before, i am in the hospital watching this in the middle of the night.