%0 Report %1 bergen2014surveillance %A Bergen, Peter %A Sterman, David %A Schneider, Emily %A Cahall, Bailey %C Washington, DC %D 2014 %K new_america_foundation nsa surveillance terrorism usa %T Do NSA's Bulk Surveillance Programs Stop Terrorists? %U http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/do_nsas_bulk_surveillance_programs_stop_terrorists %X Surveillance of American phone metadata has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism and only the most marginal of impacts on preventing terrorist-related activity, such as fundraising for a terrorist group. ... the overall problem for U.S. counterterrorism officials is not that they need vaster amounts of information from the bulk surveillance programs, but that they don’t sufficiently understand or widely share the information they already possess that was derived from conventional law enforcement and intelligence techniques.

@techreport{bergen2014surveillance, abstract = {Surveillance of American phone metadata has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism and only the most marginal of impacts on preventing terrorist-related activity, such as fundraising for a terrorist group. [...] the overall problem for U.S. counterterrorism officials is not that they need vaster amounts of information from the bulk surveillance programs, but that they don’t sufficiently understand or widely share the information they already possess that was derived from conventional law enforcement and intelligence techniques.}, added-at = {2014-01-19T12:31:57.000+0100}, address = {Washington, DC}, author = {Bergen, Peter and Sterman, David and Schneider, Emily and Cahall, Bailey}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/21e3feaf7dca7db42b448a16350b9e6a5/meneteqel}, institution = {New America Foundation}, interhash = {752c1ab3e74184f04199ce1012c975aa}, intrahash = {1e3feaf7dca7db42b448a16350b9e6a5}, keywords = {new_america_foundation nsa surveillance terrorism usa}, month = jan, timestamp = {2014-01-19T12:31:57.000+0100}, title = {Do NSA's Bulk Surveillance Programs Stop Terrorists?}, type = {Report}, url = {http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/do_nsas_bulk_surveillance_programs_stop_terrorists}, year = 2014 }