Keeping a constant watch on the entirety of the American populace and indeed much of the human race takes a lot of work, but if the NSA’s overarching surveillance is so “vital” it must have it’s successes, right?
Not so much. The only arrest officials have been able to even tangentially relate to PRISM is the September 2009 capture of airport shuttle driver Najibullah Zazi, who was arrested after he bought “several bottles” of nail polish remover. Zazi eventually plead guilty to “conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction” based solely on the nail polish remover, some hydrogen peroxide he’d bought at a hair salon.
Zazi’s plot is much hyped by the Obama Administration, but its practicality appears tenuous at best. Zazi said he’d hoped to carry out the attack in retaliation for the US occupation of Afghanistan.
Moreover, Sen. Mark Udall (D – CO) was quick to point out that there’s no actual proof PRISM had anything to do with Zazi’s capture. Indeed, Zazi’s arrest is one of the few prospective terrorist plots that didn’t directly involve the FBI pretending to be al-Qaeda and giving some guy a phony bomb, so officials looking for a “foiled” plot they could try to tie to PRISM had a pretty short list to work with.
Astonishing isn't it. They know everything about everyone, and they can't figure out any attacks, even when the Russians are basically laying out the case for them. In other words why all this? Why the waste of billions upon billions?
Because the surveillance was never about "catching terrorists," rather creating the means by which the political elites in the US will try to dominate the planet forever.
OMG, I have to buy some nail polish remover, several large bottles, as my Grand daughter upended several bottles of Nail polish on the bedroom floor, and I have two bottles of Hydrogen Peroxide in the Kitchen Cupboard! Oh No I m a Terrorist suspect! Better take Photo's of the mess as an insurance cover, against FBI agents busting down the doors!
Thank God, I live in a country other than America, where such purchases could actually mean that nail polish has to be removed of the Girl friend bleaches her hair of its used to clean things!
dubious replaces terrorist as the "go" word for the blender brains