Buzzfeed
by Ben Smith
June 7, 2013

Defenders of the American government’s online spying program known as “PRISM” claimed Friday that the suddenly controversial secret effort had saved New York City’s subways from a 2009 terrorist plot led by a young Afghan-American, Najibullah Zazi.

But British and American legal documents from 2010 and 2011 contradict that claim, which appears to be the latest in a long line of attempts to defend secret programs by making, at best, misleading claims that they were central to stopping terror plots.

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/public-...g-foiled-terror

Thanks for posting

Maybe one of the fallouts from some of this is that the notion of "we need to take away your liberties to keep you safe" will begin to weaken in at least some folk's minds. Maybe.

I saw Obama say that we should trust the government on their spying on all these phone records,
the same Obama who says he 'knows nothing' about the IRS activities, the AP phone record spying and Susan Rice's speech on Benghazi. "I know nothing, nothing"

@Palinista

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I saw Obama say that we should trust the government on their spying on all these phone records,
the same Obama who says he 'knows nothing' about the IRS activities, the AP phone record spying and Susan Rice's speech on Benghazi. "I know nothing, nothing"

@Palinista

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Quote: Ihatekoolaid wrote in post #4

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I saw Obama say that we should trust the government on their spying on all these phone records,
the same Obama who says he 'knows nothing' about the IRS activities, the AP phone record spying and Susan Rice's speech on Benghazi. "I know nothing, nothing"

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