National Security Agency - Obama Presidency Oral History Back National Security Agency Index / Organizations Transcripts James Clapper ...agencies. And the fourth one—and that's NSA [National Security Agency], NG... ...And the fourth one—and that's NSA [ National Security Agency ], NGA [Nationa... ...I was around as a young pup with NSA as an Air Force officer all during th... ...the president got rapidly educated on NSA [National Security Agency] programs... ...president got rapidly educated on NSA [ National Security Agency ] programs, and NSA targeting. I don'... ...Security Agency] programs, and NSA targeting. I don't think he, as man... ...about the metadata storage program that NSA had done in secrecy for some years. I... ...the intelligence community, and notably NSA , are huge. They have a tremendou... ...was, I think, exaggerated by the media. NSA and NSA employees who were very used t... ...exaggerated by the media. NSA and NSA employees who were very used to baskin... ...is going to forever probably taint NSA and its reputation. I think I sense i... ...was out of the government, I was on the National Security Agency advisory board. And I led a study as ... ...Select Committee on Intelligence] about NSA 's failure to adopt to the internet... ...was—and there was some truth to it—that NSA was slow to adopt. Well, I guess yo... ...was to “dual-hat” the director of NSA , since that was the nation's cybe... ...that we'd dual-hat the director of NSA as the commander of CYBERCOM and tha... ...we are in 2020, and the director of NSA is still dual hatted as the commande... ...takes too much energy away from NSA , as a part of the intelligenc... ...is appropriate. But I do worry about NSA being somewhat emasculated because o... ...CIA, FBI, and, to a lesser extent, NSA , but large parts of the intelligenc... ...across the three agencies—CIA, FBI, NSA —and ODNI [Office of the Director o... Show more... John Brennan ...the greatest impact was felt on the National Security Agency , NSA, because what Snowden wa... ...felt on the National Security Agency, NSA , because what Snowden was complainin... ...to his IG, inspector general, at the NSA . He could have raised it up the chai... ...on top of—Keith Alexander at the time— NSA , a lot of things happened under ou... ...Obama when he found out some of these NSA programs and collection capabilitie... ...to. So again, not being responsible for NSA technical surveillance programs, ... ...the heat of the concern that maybe the NSA officers did. But still, I think ther... ...misrepresentations about what FBI, CIA, NSA , and others, do. They're not perfec... Show more... Chuck Hagel ...staff, Mike Mullen. We'd go out to the NSA , National Security Agency, and spen... ...Mike Mullen. We'd go out to the NSA, National Security Agency , and spend time out there. So we too... Michael Morell ...intercepts of communication from NSA [National Security Agency], individua... ...intercepts of communication from NSA [ National Security Agency ], individual pieces of imagery fro... ...failures on the part of both CIA and NSA , steals a tremendous amount o... Mark Lippert ...agencies, you name it, it's got it—the NSA [National Security Agency], the Defens... ...you name it, it's got it—the NSA [ National Security Agency ], the Defense Intelligence Agency... Jeremy Bash ...if you'll recall that, about use of NSA [National Security Agency] authoritie... ...you'll recall that, about use of NSA [ National Security Agency ] authorities and technologies t... ...Keith [B.] Alexander, who was running NSA ; Steve [Stephen J.] Hadley, who wa... Leon Panetta ...Intelligence Agency]. We've got NSA [National Security Agency]. We've go... ...Intelligence Agency]. We've got NSA [ National Security Agency ]. We've got all of these differen... Jim Messina ...coming into my office saying, “The NSA [National Security Agency] and CIA wan... ...into my office saying, “The NSA [ National Security Agency ] and CIA want you to fly to DC becaus... Sarah Bloom Raskin ...the realm of the IT specialist and the National Security Agency . It was considered something that jus... James Risen ...had written the story about the NSA [National Security Agency] wiretappin... ...had written the story about the NSA [ National Security Agency ] wiretapping program under Bush an... ...had done with Eric Lichtblau, both the NSA story and then the story we did afte... ...They continued and they expanded the NSA programs. They dramatically expande... ...They dramatically expanded the NSA programs. They did expand it yes. ... ...print them, both the Iran story and the NSA story and a few others. And I decide... ...during the whole fight over the NSA story I was fighting both The New Yor... ...just knew that they—and then before the NSA story, they refused to run the Ira... ...it is you're talking about now? The NSA one was the wiretapping story, th... ...wiretapping story, the existence of an NSA domestic spying program that ha... ...after nine-eleven. The White House and NSA and everybody had come down on Kelle... ...after I had written the chapter on the NSA program, I called Eric out to my hous... ...Day of 2005, “I'm going to put the NSA story and the Iran story in my book an... ...the year before too. Mike Hayden, the NSA director had really seduce... ...He would take him out to the NSA by himself. I forget. This may hav... ...spent so much time worrying about the NSA story that we never debated what to d... ...but all they could think about was the NSA story. So it wasn't like they decide... ...This whole experience over the NSA story and the Iran story and a bunch o... 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