Geheimdienste: NSA-Chef Alexander fordert Stopp der Enthüllungen | ZEIT ONLINE
Geheimdienste: NSA-Chef Alexander fordert Stopp der Enthüllungen | ZEIT ONLINE
NSA chief Alexander calls the stop revelations
NSA chief Keith Alexander has defended the spying programs of the U.S. Secret Service in a video. He demanded a halt to the media revelations and judicial policy.
Running in the background relaxation music, Keith Alexander answers long more than half an hour in a darkened room on pleasing questions that are only displayed as text. The head of the secret NSA has responded with a PR video on the revelations about Spähaktionen the U.S. spies. The U.S. Defense Department put the video on YouTube .
Alexander's creed: the secret only want the best for the U.S. and its allies. prism as was needed to "protect our country from terrorists." "Yes sir, it does make sense," is the answer of the unknown interviewer. It was wrong, only of spy programs to talk further says Alexander. These are meant to make identifying terrorists. If someone has a better idea to do that, he should report.
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The necessary monitoring in Alexander's eyes he compares to a child who does not want to bathe. "Why should I take a bath, but there is a better way?", Ask a child. An adult, however, know that there is no better way. So it is also with the spy programs .
Media revelations must be stopped
Guilty in his eyes made especially media reporting on the spying programs , or with his words, they "sell". "We must find a way to stop that." That is the job of courts and politicians. To allow that the revelations continue, is wrong, he warns. Always reminded Alexander of the 11th September that lessons should be drawn from it and the secret would have done that by developing monitoring programs. The NSA would ensure with their good work, that U.S. troops can return healthy from Iraq and Afghanistan, he praised.
Alexander leads the NSA for eight years and thus longer than any of his predecessors. He has for early next year announced his retirement .
