A study this week confirmed the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of U.S. phone records has had “no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism.” The New America Foundation analysis covers 225 terrorism cases since 9/11. It says the massive sweep of telephone metadata provided evidence to launch just one case -– a San Diego cabdriver and three others convicted, not of any plots against the United States, but of sending money to a militant group in Somalia.
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