NSA director says plot against Wall Street foiled

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

NSA director says plot against Wall Street foiled

AP foreign, Tuesday June 18 2013

KIMBERLY DOZIER

AP Intelligence Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) - The director of the National Security Agency said Tuesday the government's sweeping surveillance programs have foiled some 50 terrorist plots worldwide, including one directed at the New York Stock Exchange, in a forceful defense of spy operations that was echoed by the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee.

Army Gen. Keith Alexander said the two recently disclosed programs — one that gathers U.S. phone records and another that is designed to track the use of U.S.-based Internet servers by foreigners with possible links to terrorism — are critical in the terrorism fight.

Intelligence officials last week disclosed some details on two thwarted attacks — one targeting the New York subway system, one to bomb a Danish newspaper office that had published the cartoon depictions of the Prophet Mohammad. Alexander and Sean Joyce, deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, offered additional details on two other foiled plots, including one targeting Wall Street.

Under questioning, Joyce said the NSA was able to identify an extremist in Yemen who was in touch with an individual in Kansas City, Mo. They were able to identify co-conspirators and thwart a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange.

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[sabrina 1]

1. Doesn't Alexander have a strange looking girlfriend?

[vi5]

7. I heard he doesn't separate his recycled materials.

Therefore how are we to believe anything he says.

I also heard that he once overstated one of his jobs on his resume by 2 weeks longer than he was actually there.

Some people say that this might be cause for us to dismiss anything he says and declare him an enemy of the state. I'm not saying I do, but some people might.

[magellan]

2. The attempt to stop the bank bailout, was it? n/t

[hobbit709]

4. That's about what I was thinking.

[Octafish]

15. + another

Wall Street and national security. LOL.

[temporary311]

3. For some reason,

I half expected this to be about busting up Occupy and to be from The Onion.

[Rex]

5. Oh sure, wall street.

THAT is all that matters, fuck people. WALL STREET.

[BenzoDia]

9. I don't agree necessarily. But I like your point.

[Rex]

10. I'd been a lot happier if they would have said

they foiled a Boston type attack. But hey, you can throw out words like WALL STREET and expect everyone in the room to love you. That is the kind of fetish we have with our money.

[forestpath]

6. But Wall St. has the government's blessing to plot against us.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Well, when they cleared Zuccotti park

They did add Occupy to the list of terrorist organizations, and these occupiers were demanding reform...a real threat foiled.

Notice how the good general, and the rest are talking in broad generalities? I know, I know, otherwise they would reveal sources and methods. So damn predictable.

When East Germany fell we found out the Stasi was just watching 10-15% of the people, but it was enough to keep the rest in absolute fear. We also found some of the funny tools they used, including costumes.

I wonder when the Empire fails, they all do sooner or later, and we get to see behind the mask, if we will find the wizard, a shriveled old man...who projected himself.

[DJ13]

11. They saved Wall St?

See, they arent working in our best interests.

[Zorra]

12. The NSA is Wall St. The NSA failed to stop the Wall St. terrorists from destroying the world

economy, causing billions of people to suffer.

The vast majority of the people on this planet are still suffering the negative effects of the NSA's failure to protect America from the! Wall St. terrorist attack.

Where was the NSA when the Wall St. Terrorist Bankstas blew up and devastated the world economy?

Or was it their job to help the Bankstas blow up the world economy?

Who does the NSA work for, the 1%, or the 99%?

I tend to believe that the main function of the NSA is to keep the 1%, their governments, and their possessions everywhere around the world safe from democracy.

[xiamiam]

14. + 10000 ..k and r...nt

[Fantastic Anarchist]

19. ... "safe FROM democracy."

Hammer, meet nail.

[marmar]

13. Terrorists have already taken over Wall Street.

[ReRe]

16. I suppose the proof is highly classified.

Did anyone catch this on C-Span I or II? I hope they re-run it later, as I like to arrive at my own conclusions, rather than have some M$M talking head explain it to me.

[leveymg]

17. They already had the Yemen site under surveillance - proves nothing about domestic surveillance

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/18/us-usa-security-nyse-idUSBRE95H0QT20130618
FBI official says NSA programs helped foil NYSE bombing plot

WASHINGTON | Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:17am EDT

(Reuters) - The U.S. government's surveillance of telephone and Internet communications foiled plots including one to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, Sean Joyce, the deputy FBI director, said on Tuesday.

While monitoring a known extremist in Yemen, intelligence agents "were able to detect a nascent plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange," he said in testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence committee during a hearing on National Security Agency data gathering programs.

U.S. officials said the programs have helped to foil more than 50 potential terrorist plots around the world.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

20. Now the told the terrorists how they foiled their plots!

LOL ...the NSA is a joke. They can't even be consistent.

[Buns_of_Fire]

18. Okay, they saved Wall Street. Are we supposed to thank them for that? nt