NSA chief: Spying best way to protect US

General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency (NSA), defended the bulk gathering of metadata on phone calls, saying, "There is no other way that we know of to connect the dots.'' The NSA collects information about which phone ...

Director of the National Security Agency Gen. Keith Alexander, and Deputy Attorney General James Cole testify during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee December 11, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Close Alex Wong, ...

National Security Agency chief Keith Alexander told Congress on Wednesday that he knows no better way to ensure the safety of Americans from terrorism than the agency's controversial domestic surveillance programs, which he conceded have the ...

NSA director General Keith Alexander. He and his colleagues are fighting a push to end bulk collection of Americans' phone data. Photograph: Manuel

WASHINGTON — National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander said Wednesday that "there isn't a better way'' to help defend the country from potential terror threats than the ongoing and controversial bulk collection of telephone records ...

NSA Director General Keith Alexander maintains that his agency's tactics are lawful and used against foreign adversaries. The National Security Agency is using the tracking data intended for Google's advertisers to locate its targets. According ...

It is learnt that around the time of a quiet threeday visit to India late last month by NSA chief Gen Keith Brian Alexander the deputy chief of mission of the US embassy in Delhi was summoned to the ministry of external affairs over the Snowden disclosures ...

It is learnt that around the time of a quiet threeday visit to India late last month by NSA chief Gen Keith Brian Alexander the deputy chief of mission of the US embassy in Delhi was summoned to the ministry of external affairs over the Snowden disclosures ...

File photo of Keith Alexander, the chief of the US Toronto: CBC News in Canada is citing documents shared by former contractor Edward Snowden in reporting that Canadian authorities allowed the U.S. agency to spy in the country during the G8 and G20 ...