Obama can’t point to a single time the NSA call records program prevented a terrorist attack
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Obama and Co : Il n’y a pas eu de nouveau « 9/11 » parce qu’il n’y a eu aucune nouvelle tentative mais c’est quand même la #surveillance de la #NSA qui a empêché un nouveau « 9/11 »...
National Security Agency defenders, including President Obama, continue to cite the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001 when defending the program that scoops up domestic call records in bulk. But asked specifically, on Friday, if he could identify a time when that program stopped a similar attack, President Obama couldn’t. That’s because the program hasn’t prevented a second 9/11.
But the lack of evidence that the program is effective will probably not prevent the NSA’s defenders from continuing to invoke 9/11 to protect the program. Another member of the task force, former acting CIA Director Michael Morell, on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, admitted the group had found that “the program to date has not played a significant role in stopping terrorist attacks in the United States,” but earlier in his interview credited the NSA as one of the agencies responsible for the lack of successful terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11.