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Recent social media posts claimed that a video showed a mob attacking a United Nations vehicle in Senegal last year for allegedly conveying trafficked children. The claim is false: this is an older video from 2019 filmed in Zimbabwe and shows a bus belonging to a private security firm. At the time, local news outlets reported that one of the firm’s drivers was mistaken for a kidnapper. Moreover, the UN said the claim is “fake news” and that none of its agencies use the type ...

Been under way for a number of years and that when the president learned about it, he ordered it stopped. does the president continue 0 have full confidence in general alexander to administer security? >> the president has full confidence in general alexander and the leadership at the nsa and in the rank and file at the nsa who do extraordinary work on behalf of every american citizen and on behalf of our allies and keeping them safe. the issues that are part of the review look at how we can bet...

We also need to ensure that our intelligence resources are most effectively supporting our foreign policy and national security objectives that we are more effectively weighing the risks and rewards of our activities that we are focused above all on threats to the american people. we need to ensure are collecting information not just because we can but because we should. because we need it for our security. so again, i wont go on too long. i think its important top context youllize some of these...

Allies safe but that we do so in a way that reflects the need to find balance and to -- that can arizes this sincere security, i mean rather privacy concerns that americans have and that others have around the world. >> and the "wall street journal" article that has been mentioned in this briefing, the main thrust of it is that the president was unaware that you this kind you have surveilance was going on of foreign leaders in the interview that the president gave with speaking of conflating, im...

Earlier, the clear and real privacy concerns that americans and people around the world share. >> you just mentioned that its important for us to make sure that our intelligence gathering above all is about protecting american security and you and the president in the past have talked about the nsa really being focused on things like terrorism, proliferation of wmds. can au sure our allies that the u.s. is not using the nsas intelligence capabilities to promote american economic interests? >> we...