NSA Monitoring Includes Three Major Phone Companies, ISPs, Credit Card Providers
> <i>"Everyone should just calm down and understand this isn't anything that is brand new,'' said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.), who added that the phone-data program has "worked to prevent'' terrorist attacks.</i><p>Politicians are so bad at making reassuring statements in cases like these that I wonder why they even try?<p>Also, I wonder if someone at the agency/intelligence committees would kindly point out what this great data net was doing when two young and very Internet-active men decided to blow up the Boston Marathon and were only caught through (video at the scene) surveillance tapes?