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.
