Here's a transcript of the NPR interview referenced in the article: http://www.npr.org/2014/01/10/261282601/transcript-nsa-deputy-director-john-inglis http://w

Here's a transcript of the NPR interview referenced in the article: http://www.npr.org/2014/01/10/261282601/transcript-nsa-deputy-director-john-inglis http://www.npr.org/2014/01/10/261282601/transcript-nsa-deput... Regarding the subject of the HN headline, "at most one terrorist attack might have been foiled", Inglis said: "There's a candidate for that, which is the plot that was exposed in San Diego. I think we were able to essentially tell the FBI that an individual was materially involved in terrorism that they had, three years prior, investigated based on a tip and kind of laid that case to rest. And but for the 215 Program, which we essentially tied that individual to some foreign terrorist activity overseas, the FBI would have let that case lain fallow for quite sometime. Now I cannot tell you that that wouldn't have turned up some other way. There wouldn't have been some other tool in the tool kit."