THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER – Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said she is encouraged that the National Security Agency is pushing back against inaccurate press reports about its surveillance programs as she pushes for greater transparency and a review of the nation’s intelligence operations.
“I’m delighted that they’re speaking out,” she told the Washington Examiner. “They’re standing up and this is good.”
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NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander on Wednesday denied a report in the Washington Post that the NSA had broken into Google and Yahoo data centers without their knowledge, saying the agency must obtain a court order to gain access to privately held information.
He also said previous reports in papers that the U.S. had collected millions of records on French and German citizens were wrong. Those countries’ governments, he said, passed along that information to help protect U.S. and allied troops in war zones.
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