Will NSA Pursue Amnesty Deal with Edward Snowden?

Meanwhile, Alexander took time during the “60 Minutes” segment to assure Americans of a few things

“The fact is, we’re not collecting everybody’s email,” he told CBS News correspondent John Miller. “We’re not collecting everybody’s phone things, we’re not listening to that. Our job is foreign intelligence, and we’re very good at that.”

Miller asked again: Is the perception true that the NSA is collecting phone calls of Americans? Alexander answered again: Not true.

Alexander insisted that the the NSA can target U.S. persons only with probable cause and a court order, and fewer than 60 people globally fit that description.

“We’re doing two things,” Alexander added. “We’re defending this country from future terrorist attacks and we’re defending our civil liberties and privacy. There’s no reason that we would listen to the phone calls of Americans. There’s no intelligence value in that. There’s no reason that we’d want to read their email. There is no intelligence value in that.”

Here’s video of the “60 Minutes” segment via CBS News:

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