Mike Morell, Former Deputy Director of the CIA, also argues in interview that there was no evidence of systematic abuse. January 19, 2014 10:47 AM PST Ex-CIA No. 2 Mike Morell The former Deputy Director of the CIA said Sunday that the September 11 terror attacks could have been prevented had the NSA surveillance program been in place at the time. "If the program were in place before 9/11, I believe it would have prevented 9/11," Mike Morell said earlier today on the CBS television program `Face the Nation.' "And by the program, I mean two things. I mean, NSA's ability to query the database, which would have allowed NSA to find one of the 9/11 hijackers in California, and the part of the program where NSA shares such information with the F.B.I. If both of those pieces had been in place, 9/11 would have been prevented by this program." The wide-ranging extent of the NSA's surveillance apparatus has outraged privacy advocates who have expressed alarm at the government's ability to secretly vacuum up volumes of data without oversight. Responding to the controversy, President Obama on Friday
Mike Morell, Former Deputy Director of the CIA, also argues in interview that there was no evidence of systematic abuse.
Ex-CIA No. 2 Mike Morell
The former Deputy Director of the CIA said Sunday that the September 11 terror attacks could have been prevented had the NSA surveillance program been in place at the time.
"If the program were in place before 9/11, I believe it would have prevented 9/11," Mike Morell said earlier today on the CBS television program `Face the Nation.' "And by the program, I mean two things. I mean, NSA's ability to query the database, which would have allowed NSA to find one of the 9/11 hijackers in California, and the part of the program where NSA shares such information with the F.B.I. If both of those pieces had been in place, 9/11 would have been prevented by this program."
The wide-ranging extent of the NSA's surveillance apparatus has outraged privacy advocates who have expressed alarm at the government's ability to secretly vacuum up volumes of data without oversight. Responding to the controversy, President Obama on Friday
