Absolutely amazing that these cronies would even have the moxie to state they can stop terrorist attacks after Boston. These idiots cannot even stop terrorists from walking across our southern border. They wont even investigate Islamic Mosques that are known worldwide to harbor and abet terrorist organizations. Our own government through welfare and financial assistance probably funds half the terrorists within the US (Boston, etc.). And even lets them go back to their home countries to attend terrorist training camps (Chechnya, etc.).
I haven’t returned to academia for a while to verify the state of the art.
Some people are saying the intel analysis capacity is near real time to the point of being able of predicting what people are saying in cell phone traffic.
I don’t fully understand their meaning and their metrics, but without grasping it, we don’t know the operational scale of the intel community.
Is it really necessary to build such massive data collection systems, when we are unwilling to act on a midnight phone call from Benghazi to save a US Ambassador under duress? Obviously this Administration doesn’t need it.
"By bringing data sets together, [Accumulo] allowed us to see things in the data that we didn't necessarily see from looking at the data from one point or another," Dave Hurry, head of NSA's computer science research section, told InformationWeek last fall. Accumulo gives NSA the ability "to take data and to stretch it in new ways so that you can find out how to associate it with another piece of data and find those threats."They are going to "stretch" my phone call records "in new ways" to find threats? Don't think so.
Whenever they state that they have “stopped terrorist attacks” I wonder if they are referring to the equivalent of TSA catching granny with nail clippers.