Posted on 06/18/2013 7:15:31 PM PDT by seanmerc
Intelligence officials said Tuesday that the government’s sweeping surveillance efforts have helped thwart “potential terrorist events” more than 50 times since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and the officials detailed two new examples to illustrate the utility of the programs.
In testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, officials cited a nascent plot to blow up the New York Stock Exchange and a case involving an individual providing financial support to an overseas terrorist group.
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If we don't fight these abuses of power, they will steal our rights from us, one by one.
It’s that old security vs freedom tradeoff. I want my freedom back. It’s an unsafe world. I know that. I am prepared to deal with that. Just give me back my freedom.
Secure the borders and stop importing terrorists, I’ll protect myself.
I guess we just have to take their word for it. ;-)
Kinda missed Boston, eh?
But just this past month, some part of the Obama Administration was training its folks on how those crazy right wingers had been a greater domestic threat in recent years than had Islamists...
“Name one”.
On the day after 9-11, we all pretty agreed that we had loose some of our rights...to regain our safety. We may slip back to the original starting point one day....but 9-11 will repeat itself, and we will move right back to lesser rights in the end. Fear of safety is a bigger deal, than fear of lost rights.
I thought according to dems and liberals potential doesn’t matter. Isn’t that what they always say on abortion?
But now stopping something months before it actually occurs or while it’s in the planning stages does count.
Interesting.
They couldn't stop the Tsarnaev brothers after Russia warned them about them.
We know that the Bush administration thwarted plots on LAX, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Heathrow Airport.
Name specifics or this carries less weight than the liberal despised “McCarthy’s list of known Communists”.
Not to me, it isn’t.
>> I guess we just have to take their word for it. ;-)
If you can’t trust your pResident and his administration, who CAN you trust? Right?
Who's this WE kemosabe.
Good old fashioned police work and profiling would capture all the terrorists. We already know where to look and who to look for. We just need some national cajones.
Prove it, NSA.
ROFLMAO!!! (nuff said) ;-)
It took them “weeks after the fact” to discover that the 9-11-2012 terrorist attacks on the Libyan embassy were planned.
I doubt that they are getting plots uncovered simply by connecting phone numbers together (without the content or names).
Yeah! I didn’t agree to give up any of my rights.
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