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Those stories are from 2013 and later investigation found them to be false claims.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/nsa-program-stopped-no-te...

You didn’t even read your own article.

A panel member claimed the phone metadata collection program hadn’t saved any lives/foiled any attacks - not that the NSA itself hasn’t.

Additionally they present this as being at odds with the Obama administrations documentation, not a refutation (they didn’t find them to be false claims).

Did you read your own articles? They specifically are claims that the NSA metadata collection program known as PRISM foiled terrorist attacks. They claim that evidence will not be presented publicly but will be presented to lawmakers. These exact lawmakers claim to never have received such evidence. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/13/senators-chall...

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Lol the article you list was published before the documentation cited was presented (and before my articles were even published) - additionally you are moving the goalposts - the op claim is that the nsa hasn’t foiled any terror plots - not about metadata collection

IIRC, some of those were entrapment, luring gullible individuals and goading them into terrorism.

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