With the amount of fanfare surrounding those attacks that were foiled where the government all but helped push the trigger you can bet that if there were more we&#x27;d hear about them, they are desperate for justifications for their activities and nothing would help them more than foiling a major plot like the one that just killed a large number of people.<p>See for instance:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_unsuccessful_terrorist_plots_in_the_United_States_post-9&#x2F;11" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_unsuccessful_terrorist...</a><p>It does not look as if the Snowden revelations have made America any less safe.