NSA review committee's unanimous report: ‘No significant value’ in mass phone surveillance

University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone spoke Saturday to Drake University Law School students and metro area lawyers about his service on President Barack Obama's review committee of the National Security Agency.

For weeks Stone and the committee interviewed members of different government agencies involved in national security as they compiled a unanimous report regarding the use of phone records to track possible security threats.

Stone said the group found no significant value in the NSA's phone surveillance as it did not prevent any planned terrorist attack or other threats over its six years of existence.

A damning 2013 report about the NSA's phone/email surveillance program showed they have not prevented a single terror plot. The report recommended  "this program should be terminated as soon as reasonably practicable."
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2015/04/11/drake-privacy-symposium/25650493/

Edward Snowden "We've seen U.N. reports say mass surveillance is not permissible!"