“Former officials from the intelligence community say real change is unlikely to come because the programs are important and are working. Gene Poteat, a retired senior CIA official, agreed, saying that other countries know about our surveillance and there will be no impetus to change. The real damage, he contends, has been from the media reports exposing the country’s surveillance capabilities to the world. ‘This is a counterterrorism tool that’s been in effect since 9/11 and is very useful,’ Poteat said. ‘Our intelligence services collaborate with allied intelligence services and they’ve long known about this.'”
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