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That plot wasn't discovered from mass surveillance. That was where the FBI makes themselves look like they're solving terror plots by finding mentally unstable socially isolated people and providing all the resources and planning for a 'terror plot' they can then bust.

That particular potential terrorist was clearly caught by using targeted surveillance.

It was also the FBI's "bomb" that he tried to detonate.

you can find a lot of bombs when you put them in people's hands