NSA Stopped No Attacks

While the NSA has lied to Congress and falsely claimed to have stopped terror attacks, a member of the White House panel says the NSA stopped no terror attacks.

A member of the White House review panel on NSA surveillance said he was “absolutely” surprised when he discovered the agency’s lack of evidence that the bulk collection of telephone call records had thwarted any terrorist attacks.

Stone was one of five members of the White House review panel – and the only one without any intelligence community experience – that this week produced a sweeping report recommending that the NSA’s collection of phone call records be terminated to protect Americans’ privacy rights.
The panel made that recommendation after concluding that the program was “not essential in preventing attacks.”


Domestic spying and violation of American's rights has not made us safer.  It has enriched many government contracting companies.  Will Obama stand up for Americans and stop the NSA, or will Obama stand up for corporate government contractors?  Obama has already told America that he will side with the insider corporations and not stop their spying:
“Lives have been saved,” Obama told reporters last June, referring to the bulk collection program and another program that intercepts communications overseas. “We know of at least 50 threats that have been averted because of this information.”

The NSA lied.  Obama lied to cover up the NSA spying crimes and to protect government contracting companies.

The report from the panel makes it clear the NSA spying is a wasteful use of funds:
The report said that “there has been no instance in which NSA could say with confidence that the outcome [of a terror investigation] would have been any different” without the program.

The panel’s findings echoed that of U.S. Judge Richard Leon, who in a ruling this week found the bulk collection program to be unconstitutional. Leon said that government officials were unable to cite “a single instance in which analysis of the NSA’s bulk collection metadata collection actually stopped an imminent attack, or otherwise aided the Government in achieving any objective that was time-sensitive in nature.”