From the Daily Mail in the U.K.
During a March 2012 congressional hearing, NSA Director Keith Alexander told Georgia Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson - 14 times - that his agency wasn't engaged in collecting the kind of domestic digital data that has now become the subject of embarrassing disclosures.
At 2:46 on the video Rep. Johnson begins asking the pointed questions about NSA spying on American citizens. Each question is answered with an emphatic "NO" by then NSA Director Keith Alexander.
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