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NSA head: Surveillance helped thwart more than 50 terror plots
Washington Post ^ | 18 Jun 13 | Sean Sullivan

Posted on 06/18/2013 7:15:31 PM PDT by seanmerc

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To: seanmerc

Since we’re throwing out numbers, lets just make it impressive like 500,000 or 10 million were thwarted.


21 posted on 06/18/2013 7:24:26 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Nadil Hasan worked on Ubama’s presidential transition team. The fox is in the hen house.

Islamists have infiltrated the highest levels of government.


22 posted on 06/18/2013 7:24:28 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: mountn man

LOL at this point I have far less fear of terrorists than I do this government.


23 posted on 06/18/2013 7:25:34 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: seanmerc

The plots he referenced all involved at least one OCONUS line. Not the casue of the current dust up. Rhetorical bait and switch. At best disingenuous.


24 posted on 06/18/2013 7:25:38 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,)
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To: ClearCase_guy
I am prepared to deal with that.

You and me both, only we have a Government more worried about illegals and muzzies than they are about US taking care of our own.

Its pretty clear, Gov't is in collusion with yours and my enemies.

25 posted on 06/18/2013 7:26:29 PM PDT by Ghost of SVR4
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To: seanmerc

Did any of the NSA surveillance lead to the prevention of the Occupy terrorist plot to bomb a bridge?


26 posted on 06/18/2013 7:28:03 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: pepsionice

>> On the day after 9-11, we all pretty agreed that we had loose some of our rights...to regain our safety.

Before we lost our willpower and embraced political correctness, we used to do it a different way.

If foreign powers messed with us, after a (usually protracted) period of tolerance, we finally decided we had had enough... then we went in and subjugated them THOROUGHLY, by force. After which, more often than not, they became allies. But they didn’t pull that “mess with us” stuff anymore.

That way, the citizens within the borders of this free country could remain free.

But like I said, we don’t do that anymore. We now deem it acceptable to give up our own freedoms to indulge the belligerent whims of other countries/ideologies/religions.


27 posted on 06/18/2013 7:28:11 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: a fool in paradise

http://hillbuzz.org/updating-the-no-pattern-here-list-for-2012-things-the-corrupt-media-tries-desperately-not-to-blame-on-islam-61494


28 posted on 06/18/2013 7:28:45 PM PDT by seanmerc
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To: TBP

I bet it’s just as true as Biden playing football against Ohio University!


29 posted on 06/18/2013 7:28:45 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: doc1019

My dad is an astronaut and can lift our house up with one arm.


30 posted on 06/18/2013 7:29:08 PM PDT by relictele (A place dedicated to economic, racial and social equality. It was called Jonestown.)
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To: seanmerc

bull.

if it were true, Obama would have CROWED each time.
but he did not.

The fact is that the NSA would not even respond
to humint from parents or Russia.
They let more innocents get murdered in Boston.

Shame on the NSA for violating the Constitution.


31 posted on 06/18/2013 7:29:43 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Nervous Tick

What do you mean, “WE?”


32 posted on 06/18/2013 7:30:02 PM PDT by seanmerc
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To: pepsionice

“Fear of safety is a bigger deal, than fear of loss of rights.” You are fearful, and want everyone else to lose their rights. Because You Are Fearful?


33 posted on 06/18/2013 7:30:44 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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To: seanmerc

I saw the little spiel on TV .... BS waist deep. Having watched both of his interviews, you could just look at him and tell he was lying. He ran back after the first interview and had them pull any case that they had a telephone #, e-mail address, a relative that had a phone, etc. and presented them as foiled by snooping. I think Rand Paul cut through the BS and challenged them to present a single case where the couldn’t have gotten a warrant to accomplish the same thing.


34 posted on 06/18/2013 7:31:05 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (UN Secretary General Barki-At-Moon says, "Save the planet - eat more bugs"!)
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To: seanmerc; Slings and Arrows
When I go to the WashPoo article, there is a banner ad that says "2 people are spying on you (see who)"


35 posted on 06/18/2013 7:31:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: pepsionice

Governments kill way more than terrorists.

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.CHAP2.HTM


36 posted on 06/18/2013 7:32:00 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: cripplecreek
...at this point I have far less fear of terrorists than I do this government.

Me too.

5.56mm

37 posted on 06/18/2013 7:32:42 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: seanmerc

If they stopped so many, then give the names of the people who were arrested.


38 posted on 06/18/2013 7:33:12 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: seanmerc

“He said at least 10 of the plots targeted the United States.” (SINCE 9-11-2001)


39 posted on 06/18/2013 7:33:49 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: seanmerc

If this were true, he would be telling us exactly how many.

He wouldn’t say more than 50.

He’s making it up. How about a list ace?


40 posted on 06/18/2013 7:34:33 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Speaker John Boehner (R) no (D) no (R)... has more waffles than IHOP.)
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