agencies might declassify details of thwarted plots as soon as today, chris, thanks to pressure from lawmakers here who now have to publicly defqnd these programs they've secretly been voting on and overseeing for years. a full court obama americans' concerns about secret surveillance programs led by the republican house intelligence chairman. >> if you can see just the number of cases where we've actually stopped a plot, i think americans will come to a different conclusion than all the misleading rhetoric i've heard over the last few weeks. >> reporter: intelligence agencies are now working to declassify specifics a!out dozenses of terror plots that the national security agency director told congress the secret service programs helped disrupt. over the weekend, the government unlocked a terror. they helped prevent terror lots "here in the homeland and in more than 20 countries around the world."