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title: "Obama says NSA surveillance programs have saved lives, averted at least 50 terror threats"
date: "2013-06-19"
authors:
  - name: "No Author"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2013/06/19/obama-says-nsa-surveillance-programs-have-saved-lives-averted-at-least-50-terror-threats/"
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# Obama says NSA surveillance programs have saved lives, averted at least 50 terror threats