The NSA's Massive Call Record Surveillance Program Barely Accomplishes Anything

So how effective is the NSA's massive program to collect call records for every phone call made in the United States? Today they told us: John C. Inglis, the deputy director of the N.S.A., said there had been 13 investigations in which the domestic call tracking program made a "contribution." He cited two discoveries: that several men in San Diego were sending money to a terrorist group in Somalia, and that a suspect who was already under scrutiny in a subway bomb plot was using a different phon...