Responding to criticism of NSA surveillance by the New America Foundation, ODNI spokesman Mike Birmingham says “As intelligence officials and congressional intelligence overseers have said, the bulk metadata program is a valuable tool for discovering potential links between terrorists abroad and those in the U.S. with whom they collaborate.” But Birmingham says, “it’s important to keep the program in perspective. This is one of many programs the Intelligence Community uses to identify, track, and disrupt the activities of our adversaries, including terrorists.”

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