cbsnews | No U.S. intelligence agency has ever been under the kind of pressure
being faced by the National Security Agency after details of some of its most
secret programs were leaked by contractor Edward Snowden. Perhaps because of that
pressure the agency gave 60 Minutes unprecedented access to NSA headquarters
where we were able to speak to employees who have never spoken publicly before.
Full disclosure, I once worked in the office of the director of National
Intelligence where I saw firsthand how secretly the NSA operates. It is
often said NSA stands for "never say anything," but tonight the agency
breaks with that tradition to address serious questions about whether the NSA
delves too far into the lives of Americans.
Gen. Keith Alexander: The fact is, we're not collecting everybody's
email, we're not collecting everybody's phone things, we're not listening to
that. Our job is foreign intelligence and we're very good at that.
The man in charge is Keith Alexander, a four-star Army general who leads
the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command.
John Miller: There is a perception out there that the NSA is widely
collecting the content of the phone calls of Americans. Is that true?
