For the most part, I'm going to let this pass without comment because it pretty much speaks for itself.

Except:
The Sept. 11 attacks underscored the need for such monitoring. Among the millions of communications intercepts the NSA collected on Sept. 10, 2001 were two Arabic-language messages warning of a major event the next day. The Arabic messages were not translated until Sept. 12.
I don't know about you, but my bullshit sniffer just went off the scale.

http://www.securitynewsportal.com/cg...one&id=35&op=t