FBI chief Mueller says spy tactics could have stopped 9/11 attacks
Found on The Guardian on Friday, 14 June 2013
The FBI has shrugged off growing congressional anxiety over its surveillance of US citizens, claiming such programs could have foiled the 9-11 terrorist attacks and would prevent "another Boston".
He also rejected calls from technology companies such as Google to disclose the scale of the programs, saying even this information could help terrorists seeking to hide their communications.
NSA surveillance: it's super-effective! It even helped to stop the evil guys who bombed the marathon in Boston. No, wait, it didn't. Boston happened two months ago; PRISM was running long before that date, but still the NSA failed to stop the attack. There is no way that people will believe that they could stop the next attack with their illegal monitoring. This is just political mumbo-jumbo.