NSA Chief Denies Collecting Phone Records of European Citizens

Says that Edward Snowden is wrong

The head of the National Security Agency, testifying before a House committee on possible changes to a 35-year-old surveillance law, strongly denied Tuesday that his agency collected millions of phone records of European citizens.

Army Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the NSA, said reports to the contrary, based on revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, were "completely false." He said European intelligence services collected phone records in war zones and other areas outside their borders and shared them with the NSA.