NSA chief says agency eavesdropping helped foil 54 plots

WE DID GOOD: NSA's Alexander said that 50 of the 54 cases cited in the NSA surveillance list cited had resulted in arrests or detentions. - Reuters

BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON: The director of the US National Security Agency on Thursday offered a more detailed breakdown of 54 schemes by militants that he said were disrupted by phone and internet surveillance, even as a British newspaper offered evidence of more extensive spying.

In a speech in Baltimore, NSA chief General Keith Alexander said the list of cases turned over recently to Congress included 42 that involved disrupted plots and 12 in which surveillance targets provided material support to terrorism.