NSA Director: Surveillance Programs Foiled About 50 Terrorist Plots
Washington — The National Security Agency director on Tuesday vigorously defended two formerly secret surveillance programs as having foiled more than 50 terrorist plots, including a plan to blow up the New York Stock Exchange.
The programs are “the best counterterrorism tools that we have to go after these guys,” said NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander, flanked by other top law and intelligence officials. “We can’t lose those capabilities.”
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Howell, called Alexander a “patriot” Tuesday as he kicked off a rare public hearing by his committee that is charged with oversight of the classified phone and Internet surveillance programs recently leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Before a Senate panel last week, Alexander said the leaked programs foiled “dozens” of terrorist plots. He offered more specifics Tuesday about two more unclassified plots and pledged to release the details of the more than 50 cases in a classified report to the Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.
Internet intelligence identified a Kansas City man talking to an extremist in Yemen and foiled a developing plot to bomb the Wall Street stock exchange, said Sean Joyce, deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In another instance, the phone records program identified a San Diego man who was providing financial support to a terrorist group in Somalia, Joyce told the committee under further questioning.
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From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130618/POLITICS03/306180052#ixzz2Wb3wnoLw
I *do* believe in spooks, I *do* believe in spooks. I do, I do, I do, I *do* believe in spooks, I *do* believe in spooks, I do, I do, I do, I *do*!
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Btw, I tried to embed a video of Bullwinkle, Rocky and the hat in the other post, but it wouldn't work.
Unfortunately, they missed the dust bunnies and the ever anal probing space aliens. Damn!
then you're not very credible.
She's always hated me for my freedom to open and close the treat drawer.
Details are forthcoming...as soon as I clean them up so they prove that nothing but a massive surveillance program on all the neighborhood cats could have led to this result.
USA! USA! 
