FILE - In this June 12, 2013 file photo, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, commander, U.S. Cyber Command and director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Alexander will testify during a hearing of the House Intelligence Committee Tuesday, June 18th. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
FILE - In this June 12, 2013 file photo, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, commander, U.S. Cyber Command and director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Alexander will testify during a hearing of the House Intelligence Committee Tuesday, June 18th. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2010, file photo Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander, then-commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, center right, arrives at a Capitol Hill committee hearing in Washington to testify about cyberspace operations. Alexander now directs the National Security Agency, whose job it is to use the world?s most cutting edge supercomputers and arguably the largest database storage sites to crunch and sift through terabytes of data, whether it was stolen from a foreign official?s laptop by a CIA officer overseas, or intercepted by a Navy spy plane flying off the Chinese coast, or, as Americans found out this week, secreted from your personal phone records. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The leaders of the House Intelligence Committee are vigorously defending the government's sweeping electronic surveillance programs.
Republican Rep. Mike Rogers and Democratic Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger said Tuesday that the programs were legal as well as critical in thwarting terrorism.
They criticized the recent leaks about the programs, with Rogers calling it criminal behavior.
The two spoke at the start of a rare open Capitol Hill hearing with the director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith Alexander.
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