"Defenders of “PRISM” say it stopped subway bombings. But British and American court documents suggest old-fashioned police work nabbed Zazi.


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. ..."

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

If I remember this Ben Smith correctly, he's a disgusting leftist. Interesting.

Yes, Sanguine, you remember correctly. I was surprised (real surprised) when I saw that he wrote the article - someone posted it here a bit earlier.

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Yes, Sanguine, you remember correctly. I was surprised (real surprised) when I saw that he wrote the article - someone posted it here a bit earlier.

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Yes, Sanguine, you remember correctly. I was surprised (real surprised) when I saw that he wrote the article - someone posted it here a bit earlier.

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FP123, is this the link you are talking about: WaPo: CIA asked AP not to expose Yemen terror plot bust until White House was ready to crow about it publicly ?

I'm trying to avoid posting dups.

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