NSA Program Stopped No Terror Attacks, Says White House Panel Member - NBCNews

[WillyT]

NSA program stopped no terror attacks, says White House panel member
By Michael Isikoff - NBC News
12/20/13

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A member of the White House review panel on NSA surveillance said he was “absolutely” surprised when he discovered the agency’s lack of evidence that the bulk collection of telephone call records had thwarted any terrorist attacks.

“It was, ‘Huh, hello? What are we doing here?’” said Geoffrey Stone, a University of Chicago law professor, in an interview with NBC News. “The results were very thin.”

While Stone said the mass collection of telephone call records was a “logical program” from the NSA’s perspective, one question the White House panel was seeking to answer was whether it had actually stopped “any <terror attacks> that might have been really big

“We found none,” said Stone.

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[DJ13]

1. I'm not sure terror was the real reason behind the NSA spying

Arent there reports of the NSA surreptitiously passing data to local law enforcement agencies, where they were told to make up records to cover the NSA's tracks?

It seems more a police state need than an external threat program.

[marmar]

2. k/r

[rhett o rick]

3. The way it works is the more terror strikes, the more money and power the NSA gets. nm

[sendero]

4. Of course they didn't.

.... they lied first at 20, then at 50, then they shut up about it. All these people are good at is telling lies, they couldn't find a terrorist with both hands and a map.

[WillyT]

5. Kick !!!

[woo me with science]

6. K&R