How many Terrorists plots foiled by NSA spying?
"Gen. Keith B. Alexander admitted that the number of terrorist plots foiled by the NSA’s huge database of every phone call made in or to America was only one or perhaps two"
Well i think "one or perhaps two" is really a big
fat zero......so for all of those that "believed"
this was the real reason why your government spends
billions spying on you.....whats your "belief" now??
apparently the real reason your government spies
on you is to give you.....wait for it.........
"I would call it the ‘peace of mind’ metric.”
So there it is......we spy on you to give you
'peace of mind'........Animal Farm & 1984 roll on.....
"From the Washington Times:
The Obama administration’s credibility on intelligence suffered another blow Wednesday as the chief of the National Security Agency admitted that officials put out numbers that vastly overstated the counterterrorism successes of the government’s warrantless bulk collection of all Americans’ phone records.
Pressed by the Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing, Gen. Keith B. Alexander admitted that the number of terrorist plots foiled by the NSA’s huge database of every phone call made in or to America was only one or perhaps two — far smaller than the 54 originally claimed by the administration.
Mr. Leahy and Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Wisconsin Republican and author of the USA Patriot Act, which the government says allows bulk data collection, are working on a bill to roll back that authority.
Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper denied that the number of plots foiled should be the sole metric by which the success of the program is measured. “I think there’s another metric here that’s very important. … I would call it the ‘peace of mind’ metric.”
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