“Surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency helped very little when it came to cases brought against individuals the United States says were linked to al-Qaida. That’s according to a review of 225 cases by the New America Foundation. The study was trying to answer a simple question: Do government programs that scoop up massive amounts of Americans’ data stop terrorists as the U.S. government says they do. A review of court records and news coverage about these cases found that ‘traditional investigative methods initiated the majority of terrorism cases’ and government claims on the usefulness of the programs were ‘overblown.'”
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