Security News > 2015 > July > The NSA, Metadata, and the Failure of Stopping 9/11 (Schneier on Security)
2015-07-30 11:13
It's common wisdom that the NSA was unable to intercept phone calls from Khalid al-Mihdhar in San Diego to Bin Ladin in Yemen because of legal restrictions. This has been used to justify the NSA's massive phone metadata collection programs. James Bamford argues that there were no legal restrictions, and that the NSA screwed up....
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