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Updated at 4:06 p.m. National Security Agency NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander said foreign press reports that the NSA has collected millions of French and Spanish phone records are completely false. Testifying before the House Intelligence Committee Tuesday, Alexander said, This is not information that we collected on European citizens. It represents information that we and ou stanley cup r NATO allies have collected in defense of our countries and in support of military operations. He said the foreign papers that reported the surveillance and the source of the information they viewed did not understand what they were looking at. Alexander described the information as web tool that records metadata from around the world that combines legally collected NSA records as well as data provided to the agency by foreign partners.Alexander s remarks came as America s European allies have grown increasingly angry overreports that the U.S. has spied on both those countries leaders and their citizens. Earlier in stanley romania the day, White House spokesman Jay Carney declined to comment on a Wall Street Journal report that the spying was actually conducted by France and Spain. We have important cooperative relat stanley website ionships with the security agencies and intelligence agencies of allied nations, he said.The rare open hearing before the panel was meant to consider proposed changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the laws that allow the NSA s meta Ytvt Democrats chalk up big wins in government funding deal
With House Democrats considering a floor vote on a contem stanley travel mug pt resolution stanley cup becher against current and former White House aides, Republicans have begun privately plotting a publ stanley cup ic relations offensive designed to persuade the majority party to drop the issue and move on.Top GOP leadership and Judiciary Committee staff held a strategy session Tuesday to discuss targeting conservative Democrats mdash; especially those who represent Republican-friendly districts mdash; with floor speeches, private lobbying and other efforts, if Democrats proceed with plans to hold top White House officials in contempt, according to participants in the meeting. Republicans called the emergency session after learning top Democrats were privately asking their members if they should force votes to hold White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers in contempt for failing to provide testimony as part of congressional investigations.Democratic leaders also circulated a whip question to the members of their caucus, asking if they would support the contempt resolution mdash; and the e-mail fell into GOP hands. A vote for these resolutions would direct the speaker to refer the criminal contempt charges to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, who is required by law to present them to a grand jury, the Democratic document said.Committee Democrats want to question Miers, now back in private practice in
Updated at 4:06 p.m. National Security Agency NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander said foreign press reports that the NSA has collected millions of French and Spanish phone records are completely false. Testifying before the House Intelligence Committee Tuesday, Alexander said, This is not information that we collected on European citizens. It represents information that we and ou stanley cup r NATO allies have collected in defense of our countries and in support of military operations. He said the foreign papers that reported the surveillance and the source of the information they viewed did not understand what they were looking at. Alexander described the information as web tool that records metadata from around the world that combines legally collected NSA records as well as data provided to the agency by foreign partners.Alexander s remarks came as America s European allies have grown increasingly angry overreports that the U.S. has spied on both those countries leaders and their citizens. Earlier in stanley romania the day, White House spokesman Jay Carney declined to comment on a Wall Street Journal report that the spying was actually conducted by France and Spain. We have important cooperative relat stanley website ionships with the security agencies and intelligence agencies of allied nations, he said.The rare open hearing before the panel was meant to consider proposed changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the laws that allow the NSA s meta Ytvt Democrats chalk up big wins in government funding deal
With House Democrats considering a floor vote on a contem stanley travel mug pt resolution stanley cup becher against current and former White House aides, Republicans have begun privately plotting a publ stanley cup ic relations offensive designed to persuade the majority party to drop the issue and move on.Top GOP leadership and Judiciary Committee staff held a strategy session Tuesday to discuss targeting conservative Democrats mdash; especially those who represent Republican-friendly districts mdash; with floor speeches, private lobbying and other efforts, if Democrats proceed with plans to hold top White House officials in contempt, according to participants in the meeting. Republicans called the emergency session after learning top Democrats were privately asking their members if they should force votes to hold White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers in contempt for failing to provide testimony as part of congressional investigations.Democratic leaders also circulated a whip question to the members of their caucus, asking if they would support the contempt resolution mdash; and the e-mail fell into GOP hands. A vote for these resolutions would direct the speaker to refer the criminal contempt charges to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, who is required by law to present them to a grand jury, the Democratic document said.Committee Democrats want to question Miers, now back in private practice in