NSA director admits to misleading public on terror plots

Kassem CC BY-NC-SA 5/10/2013

NSA director admits to misleading public on terror plots
▻http://www.salon.com/2013/10/02/nsa_director_admits_to_misleading_public_on_terror_plots

À la question de savoir s’il avait volontairement gonflé le chiffre du nombre d’attentats avortés grâce au programme de surveillance, le patron de la #NSA répond tranquillement « oui. »

During Wednesday’s hearing, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy pushed Alexander to admit that plot numbers had been fudged in a revealing interchange:
“There is no evidence that [bulk] phone records collection helped to thwart dozens or even several terrorist plots,” said Leahy. The Vermont Democrat then asked the NSA chief to admit that only 13 out of a previously cited 54 cases of foiled plots were genuinely the fruits of the government’s vast dragnet surveillance systems:
“These weren’t all plots, and they weren’t all foiled,” Leahy said, asking Alexander, “Would you agree with that, yes or no?”
“Yes,” replied Alexander.

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Loutre @loutre 5/10/2013

La NSA admet avoir exagéré la menace terroriste pour justifier la surveillance
▻http://www.numerama.com/magazine/27146-la-nsa-admet-avoir-exagere-la-menace-terroriste-pour-justifier-la-su
L’échange entre Patrick Leahy et Keith Alexander a été retranscrit par Salon. « Il n’existe aucune preuve que la captation massive des données téléphoniques a permis de déjouer des dizaines de complots terroristes », a d’abord déclaré le président de la commission judiciaire. Selon lui, sur les 54 cas avancés par Washington, seuls 13 auraient effectivement été contrés via la surveillance de masse.
« Tous [ces cas] n’étaient pas des complots et tous n’ont pas été neutralisés », a lancé Patrick Leahy à l’attention de Keith Alexander. « Êtes-vous d’accord avec ça, oui ou non ? » lui a-t-il demandé. « - Oui », a répondu le général. Cela, en supposant que les 13 cas restants n’ont pas impliqué d’autres sources de renseignement (renseignement humain, analyse, etc).

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Kassem @kassem CC BY-NC-SA 8/10/2013

Fact: the NSA gets negligible intel from Americans’ metadata. So end collection
▻http://warincontext.org/2013/10/08/fact-the-nsa-gets-negligible-intel-from-americans-metadata-so-end-coll
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/08/nsa-bulk-metadata-surveillance-intelligence
Leahy then demanded that Alexander confirm what his deputy, Christopher Inglis, had said in the prior week’s testimony: that there is only one example where collection of bulk data is what stopped a terrorist activity. Alexander responded that Inglis might have said two, not one.
In fact, what Inglis had said the week before was that there was one case “that comes close to a but-for example and that’s the case of Basaaly Moalin“. So, who is Moalin, on whose fate the NSA places the entire burden of justifying its metadata collection program? Did his capture foil a second 9/11?
A cabby from San Diego, Moalin had immigrated as a teenager from Somalia. In February, he was convicted of providing material assistance to a terrorist organization: he had transferred $8,500 to al-Shabaab in Somalia.

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