CNN The Situation Room January 13, 2014 23:07:00
Security advisers, some of them, concluded, have embraced this theory that if this metadata collection had been in place before 9/11, it could have prevented 9/11. >> this is a nonsensical claim. what would have prevented 9/11 is if the cnn and the fbi have been sharing information that they gained by conventional means that they didn't share with each other. that's an untestable hypothesis. what we do know is that conventional law enforcement techniques and the government actually understanding the information they already possess is the way that you stop terrorism plots, not like a sort of h...
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