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NSA Surveillance Program Failed to Invade Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Privacy

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Maybe if the NSA had stopped Tsarnaev, Snowden wouldn’t have become a leaker, says Michael Daly.

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One person whose privacy was not invaded by U.S. intelligence was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, as he repeatedly visited the al Qaeda online magazine Inspire for its recipe “Build a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom.”

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