These people cannot be trusted. Via Reason:
“As Rogers put it,
“I can tell you, in the Zazi case in New York, it’s exactly the program that was used,” Rogers said, later adding, “I think the Zazi case is so important, because that’s one you can specifically show that this was the key piece that allowed us to stop a bombing in the New York Subway system.”
Actually, the Zazi case seems to be a vindication of what Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith calls “old-fashioned police work.” That is, the staking-out of specific individuals to whom officials had been directed by specific tips. British and American court documents, writes Smith, show that intelligence officers were monitoring a particular email address that had been linked to “an al Qaeda associate” by British and Pakistani agents.”
via Do the Zazi and Headley Arrests Prove the Power of NSA Total Surveillance? – Reason.com.