Julian Zelizer: NSA apologists have developed a set of talking points about mass spying that the public has now heard over and over again. Zelizer says it’s time to call out the key claims that have been thoroughly debunked and insist that the government apologists retire them. The claim that the information stopped 54 terrorist plots fell completely apart, Zelizer writes. The government did not need additional mass collection capabilities, like the mass phone records programs, to find al Mihdhar in San Diego, he says.”]
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