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NSA chief’s admission of misleading numbers adds to Obama administration blunders (Terrorist Plots)
Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, October 2, 2013 | Shaun Waterman

Posted on 10/03/2013 9:56:40 AM PDT by Red Steel

The Obama administration’s credibility on intelligence suffered another blow Wednesday as the chief of the National Security Agency admitted that officials put out numbers that vastly overstated the counterterrorism successes of the government’s warrantless bulk collection of all Americans’ phone records.

Pressed by the Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing, Gen. Keith B. Alexander admitted that the number of terrorist plots foiled by the NSA’s huge database of every phone call made in or to America was only one or perhaps two — far smaller than the 54 originally claimed by the administration.

Gen. Alexander and other intelligence chiefs have pleaded with lawmakers not to shut down the bulk collection of U.S. phone records despite growing unease about government overreach in the program, which was revealed in documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

“There is no evidence that [bulk] phone records collection helped to thwart dozens or even several terrorist plots,” Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat and committee chairman, told Gen. Alexander of the 54 cases that administration officials — including the general himself — have cited as the fruit of the NSA’s domestic snooping.

“These weren’t all plots and they weren’t all foiled,” he said.

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Pressed by the Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing, Gen. Keith B. Alexander admitted that the number of terrorist plots foiled by the NSA’s huge database of every phone call made in or to America was only one or perhaps two — far smaller than the 54 originally claimed by the administration.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: corruption; democrats; dontspyonme; fraud; govtabuse; lies; nsa; nsaisajoke; obama; obamasfault; policestate; scandals; tyranny
"1 or 2" maybe?
1 posted on 10/03/2013 9:56:40 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

It’s all Rummy’s fault, yaknow. lol

His mis&disinformation agency is still going strong. ;-)


2 posted on 10/03/2013 10:01:01 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: Red Steel

The entire administration and all of the people that come directly under it are nothing but unmitigated liars. Citizens cannot be expected to believe anything that they say, do, or document, PERIOD.


3 posted on 10/03/2013 10:05:57 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Red Steel

A lie is more than just “misleading.” They intentionally lied.


4 posted on 10/03/2013 10:08:36 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Red Steel

Name one.


5 posted on 10/03/2013 10:13:12 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Need health care? Dial 1-800-F***KYO to reach Obama's hotline)
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To: Red Steel

For this we gave up our Fourth and Fifth Amendments?


6 posted on 10/03/2013 10:14:47 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Need health care? Dial 1-800-F***KYO to reach Obama's hotline)
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To: Red Steel
Obama/NSA/DHS/TSA/Congress
LET the Boston Atrocity happen as they
ignored Putin's warnings and permitted the terrorists
to re-enter the USA ... without a Passport.

"When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt,
but protects the corrupt from you -
you know your nation is doomed."

-Ayn Rand

7 posted on 10/03/2013 10:23:09 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Red Steel
The Obama administration's credibility on intelligence suffered another blow

How did anything hit such a miniscule target?

8 posted on 10/03/2013 10:30:40 AM PDT by shego
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To: Red Steel
If they couldn't foil the Boston Marathon bombers after getting specific warnings identifying one of the brothers by name, why should anybody believe that they've done any better at sifting through all the snooping data they vacuum up?

Mass surveillance makes us less safe, by giving these Keystone Kops a flood of irrelevant information that distracts them from actual threats.

9 posted on 10/03/2013 10:30:40 AM PDT by shego
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To: Red Steel

10 posted on 10/03/2013 11:30:24 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: Red Steel
NSA’s huge database of every phone call made in or to America was only one or perhaps two — far smaller than the 54 originally claimed by the administration.

Literally trillions of bits & bytes of information collected by NSA data mining operations, and they foiled 1 or 2? And they couldn't even foil the the Boston marathon bombers in spite of repeated warnings from Russia?

I wish we could someday elect a genuine, conservative, pro-American, pro-liberty, pro-freedom, Christian, patriotic, constitutional president. Who would then FIRE 90% of the NSA, disband the TSA, Dept of Ed, Dept of Energy, and layoff 50% of rest of government AND limit their retirement pay from full 100% of their salary to 30% of the average of the last 5 years...including judicial, legislative & executive branches.

Personally I think our country will need to go through a tremendous, gut-wrenching, splitting into several regional countries before we would ever find or elect someone who would fit this description.

11 posted on 10/03/2013 1:36:27 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: Gaffer

Yet half the people in this country would vote for him again.


12 posted on 10/03/2013 2:22:13 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Red Steel
"1 or 2" maybe?

ZERO, probably.

The actual effect of the NSA's snooping fetish is to make the nation less safe -- while they poke and pry into the private business of innocent citizens, actual information about bad guys (like the warning about Tsarnaev handed to the Feds on a silver platter) gets lost in the noise.

Also, when are these people going to learn that lying just makes it worse when you inevitably get


13 posted on 10/04/2013 8:04:14 AM PDT by shego
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

I need to figure out how to superimpose that Mythbusters "BUSTED" stamp over the giant screen of BS in this picture.

14 posted on 10/04/2013 8:04:14 AM PDT by shego
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To: shego

I’ll bet Microsoft gave the NSA and the Fed gov backdoors to their operating systems.


15 posted on 10/04/2013 9:03:40 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel
I’ll bet Microsoft gave the NSA and the Fed gov backdoors to their operating systems.

Good luck finding a sucker dumb enough to cover that bet.

16 posted on 10/04/2013 10:33:29 AM PDT by shego
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To: shego

Someone in authority arrest some of these lieing commieLIB bums and prosecute them.


17 posted on 10/04/2013 4:07:35 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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