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Originally Posted by DtheP47
From a Washington website:
Classified National Security Agency programs prevented dozens of terrorist plots, the man in charge of the agency told a Senate panel Wednesday.
National Security Agency (NSA) chief Keith Alexander Alexander said there were “dozens of terrorist events that these [programs] have helped prevent,” referring to the recently disclosed domestic surveillance programs run by the agency.
One program, code-named PRISM, that pulls data from tech companies on foreign Internet users helped to disrupt Najibullah Zazi's plot to bomb New York's subways in 2009.
The second program, allowing the NSA to sweep all cellphones on the Verizon network, played a key role in the federal manhunt for Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who were responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings.
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Was it not also that department told us about "Saddams" WMD.?
