NSA spying led to school teacher, other innocent Americans, dead end

[ProSense]

Post-September 11 avalanche of data led FBI to dead ends: report
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Much of the domestic spying conducted by the National Security Agency after the September 11, 2001 attacks was unproductive and led the FBI to dead ends or innocent Americans, The New York Times said.

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FBI officials checking up on post-September 11 NSA information, which sometimes involved interviews by agents, said the checks were "pointless intrusions on Americans' privacy," said the daily paraphrasing its sources.

The stream of data led to few potential terrorists inside the United States not already known to authorities and diverted attention from counterterrorism work FBI officials viewed as more productive.

"We'd chase a number, find it's a schoolteacher with no indication they've ever been involved in international terrorism - case closed," said one former FBI official. "After you get a thousand numbers and not one is turning up anything, you get some frustration," he added.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060117/pl_afp/uspoliticsintelligence_060117085023

[ClintonTyree]

1. What the heck is the sense of gathering all this "intelligence".....

when cement-head is just going to ignore it anyway? "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." ......oops, didn't read it! "No Evidence to Support Claim Saddam Has WMDs".....oops, read it but ignored it!
You can have the best intelligence in the world and if our "thief in chief" ignores it what the hell good does it do?
Cheney's ridiculous assertion that this spying "has saved thousands of lives" is without merit. He must be forgetting the thousands of lives that have been wasted in Iraq over what bush calls "darned good intelligence".
bush is caught in his own web of lies now, problem is the country is struggling in the same web.

[frylock]

2. k & r..

vote this one up on Yahoo, peeps.

[colonel odis]

3. why be afraid of their intelligence-gathering, as someone said last week.

intelligence really isn't this country's strong suit.

9/11
iraq
et. al.