“I don’t know what news forums you are reading, but I have read several articles posted here about the specific terrorism related information that was gathered about the Boston and Fort Hood terrorists before their terrorism.”
Yes, in those cases, I think they had enough info to look a lot closer at those guys and they dropped the ball for some reason. But those weren’t the only events the poster was talking about, and it seemed like they were under the impression that the NSA spying program was a magic ball that should have caught every terrorist from 9/11 on up. We’re not living in “Minority Report” yet, so that’s just a silly idea to have.
Right...the poster did refer to NSA, which I guess is electronic intelligence gathering, so you were rightly addressing that...but in regards to his “How could they not know”, I was thinking more about specific leads and clues about those terrorists.