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McCain: NSA Chief Must Go

Syuzanna Petrosyan |
November 11, 2013 | 9:15 a.m. PST

Executive Producer

John McCain (Wikimedia Commons)
John McCain (Wikimedia Commons)
In an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel, senator John McCain said that NSA chief Keith Alexander should resign or be fired.

McCain said that the Alexander should be held accountable for the leaks of thousands of documents by the whistleblower Edward Snowden, which revealed NSA surveillance and spying on a massive scale. 

President Barack Obama, the NSA and the congressional intelligence committee had responsibility for the sharing of classified information, he said.

The senator also said that he believed that Snowden would never return to the U.S., where he would face trial. 

Read more at The New York Daily News.

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