Want Proof That NSA Snooping Thwarts Terror Plots? Stand By, Senator Says. -- Christian Science Monitor
Efforts are afoot to declassify some examples of terrorist plots thwarted by controversial NSA surveillance programs, perhaps by next week, Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Thursday after senators met with US intelligence officials.
Americans will soon be able to judge for themselves the merits of National Security Agency programs to vacuum up massive amounts of digital data, because intelligence officials hope to declassify terrorist attacks thwarted by the controversial data-mining systems as early as Monday, the Senate’s top lawmaker on intelligence issues said Thursday.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) of California, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is working to declassify some examples of terrorist plots in the US and abroad that were thwarted by sweeping NSA phone-call and social-media data-collection systems. Mr. Clapper has previously said such surveillance efforts helped to block "dozens" of potential attacks.
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My Comment: We are being told that the info will be made public next week. OK .... I can wait one week.
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