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JDPriestly

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23. Thank you.

Tue Jun 18, 2013, 06:56 PM

Jun 2013

We know the cost-benefit analysis of food stamps and medical care, but this surveillance program provides very little benefit compared to its cost. That is unless you are a democratic government and you want to become a dictatorship.

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CNN's Peter Bergen Probes Claim NSA Halted "Dozens" of Attacks - Finds It Mainly Hype [View all] Hissyspit Jun 2013 OP

That's unusually vertebrate of CNN. (nt) Posteritatis Jun 2013 #1

Bergen is good. His only problem is he works for CNN, but Hissyspit Jun 2013 #3

The press right one is not happy nadinbrzezinski Jun 2013 #6

How many of these were FBI initiated stings? Eddie Haskell Jun 2013 #19

Precisely Ednahilda Jun 2013 #34

I like your use of "vertebrate". Puzzledtraveller Jun 2013 #43

It might overstate things a bit, but hey, there's hints of a notochord at least! (nt) Posteritatis Jun 2013 #45

And that is a reason to quit spying on China and the Wahhabi fundamentalists? Kolesar Jun 2013 #2

Maybe, but who called for that? Hissyspit Jun 2013 #4

While this is largely solid and factual, the Time Square bomber was known to CIA/NSA by his Awlaki leveymg Jun 2013 #5

Lovely, but the attack was foiled when two street vendors discovered a car bomb . avaistheone1 Jun 2013 #9

The bomb was a dud, like most of the ones designed by Awlaki's "genius" bomb maker. leveymg Jun 2013 #10

yep! NoMoreWarNow Jun 2013 #33

Oh yeah, "it's a toss up" cnn Cha Jun 2013 #7

Lumping all NSA 'programs' together & then dismissing them as fishing expeditions is a mistake. KittyWampus Jun 2013 #8

Can you name one NSA/CIA/FBI operation that actually deterred a real foreign terrorist attack? leveymg Jun 2013 #11

None here . Eddie Haskell Jun 2013 #21

They can't even pin down how much they've spent on JTTF "Fusion Centers" to the nearest $billion leveymg Jun 2013 #22

What, exactly, are you defending/ pscot Jun 2013 #13

That is the big secret they want to hide. kentuck Jun 2013 #14

Thank you. JDPriestly Jun 2013 #23

People protecting their fiefdoms formercia Jun 2013 #39

Do you work for the government? burnodo Jun 2013 #29

Lol. The trainwreck is fascinating to watch, funny and sad at the same time. Bittersweet Catherina Jun 2013 #12

Like they care about silly things like facts Fearless Jun 2013 #15

Thanks for the post. ctsnowman Jun 2013 #16

By All Means Quantify Results DallasNE Jun 2013 #17

Funny, I can't find any. Eddie Haskell Jun 2013 #18

I could smell the manure the minute the official claims hit the press. marmar Jun 2013 #20

Hype, or hope. Either way, they're both phony lies. blkmusclmachine Jun 2013 #24

But even if one American life were saved through spending $100s of billions annually in violating indepat Jun 2013 #25

First, let me state that I feel the NSA budget is way too much money that could be spent on other... DontTreadOnMe Jun 2013 #26

Breaking: NSA leak lowers toilet use. L0oniX Jun 2013 #27

He is talking about homegrown jihadist extremists Life Long Dem Jun 2013 #28

So, is CNN good journalism or a bunch of hacks dbackjon Jun 2013 #30

How would Bergen know how many plots may or may not have been thwarted? spicegal Jun 2013 #31

So we can just forget about spying ? treestar Jun 2013 #32

There have been such calls for 50 years--nothing ever comes of it Demeter Jun 2013 #35

Say it ain't so! n/t Catherina Jun 2013 #36

The first thing I thought of when this claim was trotted out: Bush/Cheney's "Library Tower" Plot... AzDar Jun 2013 #37

"Liberty Tower" as shrub referred to it.. frylock Jun 2013 #38

The real problem libdude Jun 2013 #40

This is how the three-letter-agencies foil a terrorist plot. backscatter712 Jun 2013 #41

well of course, it has little to do with "terror",. and much to do with dissent,. Civilization2 Jun 2013 #42

It's like that U.S. / Canada border guard who was a complete asshole... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2013 #44