Posted on 03/10/2014 5:13:58 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden said today that rather than helping combat terrorism, the U.S. government’s massive surveillance programs have led to “tremendous intelligence failures” and may have contributed to allowing the deadly Boston Marathon bombing to have taken place.
“We’re monitoring everybody’s communications, instead of suspects’ communications,” Snowden said during a live video conference at Austin’s popular South by Southwest festival. “That lack of focus has caused us to miss leads that we should’ve had. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the Boston bombers, the Russians had warned us about him… And if we hadn’t spent so much on mass surveillance, if we had followed the traditional models, we might’ve caught him.”
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Uh, folks, we don’t need ABC telling us that Snowden says that....
The facts are that the OBAMA regime was WARNED SPECIFICALLY about the two scumbags who are responsible for the bombing.
Who warned Team BO? Well, that eeeeeeeeeeeevil Vladimir Putin’s government, as I recall. The Russians were giving us “heads up” about the sleaze....and Team Obama was out at the golf course.
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