White House Sees 'No Alternative' to NSA's 'Collect It All' Approach

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47. Here it is from yesterday's New York Times

" But General Alexander’s deputy, John C. Inglis, who has spent nearly three decades at the N.S.A. focused on the technology of intercepting and decoding foreign communications, told Congress last week that so far there was no satisfying alternative to a government library of calls and, seemingly by extension, text messages and many Internet searches.

“It needs to be the whole haystack,” Mr. Inglis said. If the United States was looking for the communications of a terrorism suspect, he said, “it needs to be such that when you make a query you come away confident that you have the whole answer.” "

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/world/as-us-weighs-spying-changes-officials-say-data-sweeps-must-continue.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=2&adxnnlx=1383679257-HtRqZe9BLd/d4qMdT9TxOg