Ex-NSA chief to Justin Amash: Don’t ‘misrepresent’ spy program

Published August 4, 2013 4:00am ET



Former National Security Agency director Michael Hayden told Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., to stop “misrepresent[ing]” the NSA data collection programs that Edward Snowden revealed to the media.

“[I]t doesn’t make Americans more comfortable about the program to misrepresent it,” Hayden said on Fox News Sunday during a joint appearance with Amash. “This does not authorize the collection of content, period.”

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