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    The NSA director Keith Alexander said that recently leaked surveillance programs have helped thwart over 50 potential terrorist attacks since 9/11, with 10 of those attacks set to take place in the United States. He said that 90% of disrupted attacks were due to the PRISM program, which monitors web traffic, and helped stop a 2008 plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange. The PRISM program was also key to disrupting a 2009 plot to bomb the New York City subway system. While the President acknowledged the plot may have been stopped through other means, the margins of preventing attacks are increased through these surveillance programs.

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    The NSA director Keith Alexander said that recently leaked surveillance programs have helped thwart over 50 potential terrorist attacks since 9/11, with 10 of those attacks set to take place in the United States. He said that 90% of disrupted attacks were due to the PRISM program, which monitors web traffic, and helped stop a 2008 plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange. The PRISM program was also key to disrupting a 2009 plot to bomb the New York City subway system. While the President acknowledged the plot may have been stopped through other means, the margins of preventing attacks are increased through these surveillance programs.

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    NSA: PRISM stopped NYSE attack

    www.politico.com /story/2013/06/nsa-leak-keith-alexander-092971
    Recently leaked communication surveillance programs have helped thwart more than 50 potential terrorist
    events around the world since the Sept. 11 attacks, National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander
    said Tuesday.
    Alexander said at least 10 of the attacks were set to take place in the United States, suggesting that most
    of the terrorism disrupted by the program had been set to occur abroad.
    The NSA also disclosed that counterterrorism officials targeted fewer than 300 phone numbers or other
    identifiers last year in the massive call-tracking database secretly assembled by the U.S. government.
    Alexander said the programs were subject to extraordinary oversight.
    This isnt some rogue operation that a group of guys up at NSA are running, the spy agencys chief
    added.
    The data on use of the call-tracking data came in a fact sheet released to reporters in connection with a
    public House Intelligence Committee hearing exploring the recently leaked telephone data mining program
    and another surveillance effort focused on Web traffic generated by foreigners.
    Alexander said 90 percent of the potential terrorist incidents were disrupted by the Web traffic program
    known as PRISM. He was less clear about how many incidents the call-tracking effort had helped to avert.
    Deputy FBI Director Sean Joyce said the Web traffic program had contributed to arrests averting a plot to
    bomb the New York Stock Exchange that resulted in criminal charges in 2008.
    Joyce also indicated that the PRISM program was essential to disrupting a plot to bomb the New York City
    subways in 2009. Without the [Section] 702 tool, we would not have identified Najibullah Zazi, Joyce said.
    However, President Barack Obama acknowledged in an interview aired Monday that it is impossible to
    know whether the subway plot might have been foiled by other methods.
    We might have caught him some other way. We might have disrupted it because a New York cop saw he
    was suspicious. Maybe he turned out to be incompetent and the bomb didnt go off. But at the margins we
    are increasing our chances of preventing a catastrophe like that through these programs, Obama told
    Charlie Rose on PBS.
    At the hearing, Alexander detailed the scope and safeguards of the programs, while Deputy Attorney
    General James Cole laid out the legal basis for the surveillance.
    This is not a program thats off the books, thats been hidden away, Cole said of the call-tracking
    program, which was classified top secret prior to recent leaks. He noted that the Patriot Act provision
    found to authorize it has been twice reauthorized by Congress.
    All of us in the national security [community] are constantly trying to balance protecting public safety with
    protecting peoples civil liberties, Cole said.
    NSA Deputy Director Chris Inglis said a very limited number of individuals are authorized to access the
    call-tracking database.

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