Hayden Insists NSA Surveillance Is Legal - Yahoo! News:
"WASHINGTON - CIA nominee Gen. Michael Hayden insisted on Thursday that the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program was legal and that it was designed to ensnare terrorists, not spy on ordinary people.
'Clearly the privacy of American citizens is a concern constantly,' the four-star Air Force general told the Senate Intelligence Committee at his confirmation hearing. 'We always balance privacy and security.'
Hayden was peppered by as many questions about the National Security Agency, the super-secret agency that he headed from 1999-2005, as about his visions for the CIA.
Senators grilled him on the NSA's eavesdropping without warrants on conversations and e-mails believed by the government to involve terrorism suspects, and reports of the tracking of millions of phone calls made and received by ordinary Americans"
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