I chaired the first full Judiciary Committee hearing to examine government surveillance programs with administration officials and outside experts. At the hearing. the NSA Deputy Director confirmed that the NSAs bulk telephony program did not help to thwart dozens of terrorist plots. as some administration officials defending the program had been contending. He confirmed that section 215 was only uniquely valuable in thwarting one terrorist "plot"-the case of Basaaly Moalin. a Somali immigrant who was convicted of material support for sending $8.500 to alShabaab in Somalia. As a result of continued public debate about the governments surveillance activities. on August 9. 2013. President Obama announced that he was ordering the Director of National Intelligence.
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