<story><title>NSA makes final push to retain most mass surveillance powers</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/10/nsa-mass-surveillance-powers-john-inglis-npr</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jbapple</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s a transcript of the NPR interview referenced in the article:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/2014/01/10/261282601/transcript-nsa-deputy-director-john-inglis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.npr.org&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;261282601&amp;#x2F;transcript-nsa-deput...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the subject of the HN headline, &amp;quot;at most one terrorist attack might have been foiled&amp;quot;, Inglis said:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;There&amp;#x27;s a candidate for that, which is the plot that was exposed in San Diego. I think we were able to essentially tell the FBI that an individual was materially involved in terrorism that they had, three years prior, investigated based on a tip and kind of laid that case to rest.&lt;p&gt;And but for the 215 Program, which we essentially tied that individual to some foreign terrorist activity overseas, the FBI would have let that case lain fallow for quite sometime. Now I cannot tell you that that wouldn&amp;#x27;t have turned up some other way. There wouldn&amp;#x27;t have been some other tool in the tool kit.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>NSA makes final push to retain most mass surveillance powers</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/10/nsa-mass-surveillance-powers-john-inglis-npr</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>f_salmon</author><text>&amp;gt; But security officials are arguing strongly against curtailing the substance of domestic surveillance activities.&lt;p&gt;Right. How about just having a sane and humane foreign policy instead of blowing up people all over the World? How about NOT creating hostility against the US in the first place? Did that ever cross your simple minds?&lt;p&gt;Oh sorry, I forgot - this would make the NSA&amp;#x2F;military less important, so that&amp;#x27;s no option, I suppose.</text></comment>