Debunking NSA myths
2013-12-31 17:55:40.539895+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst: Would NSA surveillance have stopped 9/11 plot?.
As documented above, however, the government missed multiple opportunities to catch al-Mihdhar, and the failure was one of information sharing inside the U.S. intelligence community. Since we can't run history backward, all we can say with certainty is that it is an indisputable fact that the proper sharing of intelligence by the CIA with other agencies about al-Mihdhar may well have derailed the 9/11 plot. And it is merely an untestable hypothesis that if the NSA bulk phone collection program had been in place at the time that it might have helped to find the soon-to-be-hijackers in San Diego.
They're spending our tax dollars stalking exes and making our computing less secure, and not doing the job they're actually tasked with doing.