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by anigbrowl 4362 days ago
On the other hand, anyone who is up to something bad is going to try to keep it as secret as possible, no?

After 10 years of pervasive surveillance and not being able to catch a single terrorist

Questionable. I wouldn't expect the NSA to put out a press release every time someone is nabbed on the back of their information-gathering, that wouldn't be very smart.