NSA Chief Keith Alexander Takes His PRISM Pitch To YouTube

Daniel_Stuckey writes "There's definitely something strange about the video's attempt at looking/sounding like a NOVA episode. Alexander, who defended the agency at Black Hat this summer and recently announced his retirement next year, takes care to emphasize the agency's privacy compliance precautions and oversight. 'We have not had any willful or knowing violations in those programs,' he says referring to sections 215 and 702 of the Patriot Act, which relate to the telephone metadata and PRISM programs respectively. 'There have been [violations] in other programs, but not in those two.'"

Re:Have they not worked it out yet?

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Apparently, those were associated with a different program... How many different programs are there? That's a state secret, citizen! Are 'violations that even our internal affairs flunkies can't pretend away automatically re-classified as part of PROJECT BAD-EGG, which is the only program with any history of violations? Gosh no! Could we just classify each distinct login by every single analyst as a 'program' in order to say that we have a 100% record on shutting down programs with violations associated? Well, it's a big namespace, so why not?