Former NSA Director: ‘We’re at Greater Risk’
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 17th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Former NSA Director: ‘We’re at Greater Risk’
Mattathias Schwartz, The New Yorker: Since Edward Snowden’s revelations about government surveillance, we know more about how the National Security Agency has been interpreting Section 215 of the Patriot Act and Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. We’ve learned some new words — “bulk metadata,” “selector,” “reasonable articulable suspicion,” “emphatic-access restriction” — but we don’t really know how much of this works in practice. Last week, I spent an hour with General Keith B. Alexander, who retired in March after eight years as the director of the N.S.A. The forces pushing for omnivorous data collection are larger than any one person, but General Alexander’s role has been significant.
