The media called the candidate for the post of head of the NSA

The new head of the US National Security Agency may be the Vice Admiral of the country's Navy Michael Rogers, CNN .

The current head of the department Keith Aleksander must leave his post in March of this year. It is assumed that the reason for this was the scandal around the disclosure of data on the programs of the ACH surveillance.

Earlier, the New York Times reported that the NSA and the British government department collected information about people using popular smartphones. In particular, the surveillance program includes applications such as Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, Twitter, as well as many games, for example, Andry Birds.

In turn, the official representative of the White House Jay Carney said that the NSA did not collect data from smartphones of ordinary Americans - it is only about persons suspected of terrorism.