{"id":36345,"date":"2013-06-21T08:19:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T12:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36345"},"modified":"2013-06-21T08:19:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T12:19:02","slug":"nsas-data-gathering-didnt-help-much-in-terror-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36345","title":{"rendered":"NSA’s data gathering didn’t help much in terror investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Time<\/a>s reports that members of Congress who have seen the documents related to the investigations that the National Security Agency claims that helped to prevent terror attacks across the globe really didn’t help all that much to justify the massive data gathering operation;<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have yet to see any evidence that the bulk phone records collection program has provided any otherwise unobtainable intelligence,\u201d Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Udall of Colorado said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is highly doubtful that these [NSA collection] programs played the kind of central role in these cases that officials have said,\u201d said Michael German, a lawyer and former undercover FBI agent who now works for the American Civil Liberties Union.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The government had formerly said that the gathering of data helped them to interdict more than 50 terror plots around the world, and more than 10 which were specifically directed at the US.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Fox reports on it’s broadcast of the News channel that the government is reviewing the procedures that were used to grant Ed Snowden his security clearance. From the Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do believe there may be some problems\u201d with the reinvestigation of Mr. Snowden when his clearance was renewed in 2011, Patrick E. McFarland, the inspector general for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, told a Senate hearing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously? Ya think so? His friends say that he was planning this little escapade for months before he was hired by Booze-Allen. No one thought to ask his friends about his character?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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