NSA: Secret surveillance programs thwarted 50 terror plots

NSA officials say the government's secret surveillance programs may have stopped terror plots to bomb the city's subway system and the New York Stock Exchange. Gen. Keith Alexander testified before

News 12 Staff

Jun 18, 2013, 8:32 PM

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NSA officials say the government's secret surveillance programs may have stopped terror plots to bomb the city's subway system and the New York Stock Exchange.

Gen. Keith Alexander testified before the House Intelligence Committee today.

Alexander says the NSA thwarted attacks by linking known suspects in Pakistan and Yemen to contacts here in the United States.

The NSA told the committee that since Sept. 11, 2001, there have been more than 50 terror plots stopped with the help of NSA surveillance programs.

The programs have come under fire since they were exposed by former NSA computer employee Edward Snowden.



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