美國國安局長：美國沒有監視歐洲國家公民

The head of the super-secret U.S. National Security Agency says reports that it collected telephone records of millions of European citizens are completely false.

Keith Alexander told a congressional panel Tuesday that European spy agencies shared those records with the NSA. Alexander said the details were used to defend U.S. and European forces in the field and citizens at home.

The NSA chief said European newspapers misinterpreted documents stolen from the NSA by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.

Reports that the NSA collected U.S. phone records and monitored communications from 35 world leaders have outraged millions of Americans of all political persuasions.

But Alexander said the NSA's massive worldwide collection of telephone and Internet data stopped 13 terrorist plots in the United States and 25 plots in Europe in recent years.美國國家安全局局長亞歷山大表示，有關國安局蒐集千百萬歐洲公民電話記錄的報道完全不實。美國國安局是一個高度機密機構。

亞歷山大星期二在一個國會委員會舉行的聽證會上說，歐洲情報機構與美國國安局分享了那些電話記錄。亞歷山大表示，這些電話記錄的細節被用於保護美國和歐洲的前線部隊以及國內人民。

亞歷山大表示，歐洲的報紙錯誤解讀了被美國國安局前合同工斯諾登盜竊的文件。

有關美國國安局蒐集美國的電話記錄並監聽35位世界各國領導人通訊的報道，激起千百萬持各種政治立場的美國人的憤怒。

但亞歷山大表示，美國國安局在世界範圍內進行的大規模電話和互聯網數據蒐集防止了近年來美國的13起恐怖分子襲擊陰謀以及歐洲的25起襲擊陰謀。