CBS News
June 16, 2019
The telephone data collection program run by the National Security Agency in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks — which was amended following its public disclosure by contractor Edward Snowden in 2013 — may no longer be “useful,” the former head of the agency, retired Army Gen. Keith Alexander, said Friday.
Alexander, who led the NSA from 2005 to 2014 and became the first commander of U.S. Cyber Command upon its creation in 2009, spoke to reporters ahead of the Intelligence National Security Alliance’s 35th Annual William Oliver Baker Award Dinner in Washington, where he was being honored.