NSA Director Michael Rogers delivered his remarks Friday while giving an address at the Politics Aside conference Took over the agency in April after departure of his embattled predecessor, Keith Alexander Rogers said because of Edward Snowden's leaks, groups like ISIS have been 'shutting the NSA out'

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Published: 17:32 EST, 15 November 2014 | Updated: 11:19 EST, 16 November 2014

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PR porblem: NSA Director Michael Rogers spoke about the agency's bad image at a conference in California held by the think-tank RAND Corportation

The newly appointed director of the beleaguered National Security Agency has excoriated critics for vilifying the department while insisting that the NSA is not keeping tabs on Americans.

NSA Director Michael Rogers delivered his remarks Friday while giving an address at the Politics Aside conference, which is hosted twice a year in Santa Monica, California, by RAND Corporation - a non-profit global policy think tank.

'We don't monitor the behaviors of American citizens,' Rogers declared. 'That's not what we're about. That's not our mission. That's not what we're here to do. So we've got to work our way through this.'

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