Surveillance? What Surveillance? (NSA Chief Denies Agency Can Monitor Americans)

Though numerous reports indicate that the NSA is building a data center in Utah with the capability of tracking, monitoring, storing, decrypting, and analyzing all US phone and internet traffic, as well as private information about Americans like banking transactions, NSA Chief General Keith Alexander insisted that no matter what some insider sources may claim, the NSA is not able to spy on the communications of Americans inside of the United States.

“We don’t have the technical insights in the United States,” he claimed. “In other words, you have to have… some way of doing that either by going to a service provider with a warrant or you have to be collecting in that area. We’re not authorized to do that, nor do we have the equipment in the United States to collect that kind of information.”