Former Counterterrorism Official: NSA’s Bulk Data Collection Made Terrorism Investigation Process More Efficient

The expiration of the National Security Agency’s bulk data collection program was not “an enormous factor” impacting the investigation into the San Bernardino mass shooting last week, because what bulk data collection did was make the process “more efficient,” Michael Leiter, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.