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what the program is and isn t. i call out senator paul for making statements that simply do not describe the program. when you say that you re talking about senator paul not describing what the program actually does in terms of the metadata versus phone records versus who holds what he said is that the government is collecting your e-mails, buddy lists, content of your calls and that is not the case at all, and i think that has been proven there s never been abuse of this. it is an important tool so badly misrepresented and we all want to find that place between respecting our citizens privacy and protecting their security and i think we re working toward that sweet spot here. senator paul seems to have this narrative going for whatever reason. you say whatever reason and obviously as he has stood on the senate floor for hours and spoken he s made it an ideological reason quoting ben franklin and the founding fathers and talking about those who were willing to give up liberty
implication that the foreign intelligence collection is focused on the smart phone or social media communications is not true. we are not interested in the communications of people who are not valid foreign intelligence targets. in one document, which could not be verified by cnn, the effort is described as a golden nugget. information that could be connected includes location of users, networks to which they connect, buddy lists and downloaded documents. this would need really tight controls to make sure they weren t taking advantage of it. and now there will be a new head of the nsa. the current director, general keith alexander, long scheduled to retire. we now understand that vice admiral michael rogers will be nominated to succeed him.