NSA Phone Data on US Locations Incidental, Chief Says

The National Security Agency can inadvertently intercept mobile phone data revealing the location of US citizens, the agency’s chief said. The collection of cell site location data occurs abroad when the NSA is conducting electronic surveillance on a suspected foreign terrorist, Army General Keith Alexander told the Senate Judiciary Committee during a hearing. “We’re not targeting Americans and we’re not going after Americans’ data,” Alexander said. “The fact that that’s collected is incidental.”