Reports: NSA Director To Step Down In 2014

National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance A... National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and National Security Agency (NSA) call records. Lawmakers who oversee US intelligence agencies are working to expand the government's spying powers to allow the FBI to immediately begin electronically monitoring terror suspects who travel to the United States and who already were under surveillance overseas by the NSA. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) MORE LESS
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National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander will step down in the spring, a Pentagon spokeswoman told The Hill.

The official told The Hill that Alexander’s decision “nothing to do” with details about the NSA’s spying practices leaked to the press by Edward Snowden.

Reuters reports that Alexander will resign by March or April and that his deputy, John Inglis, will also step down by the end of 2014.

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