In the celebrated age of Big Data, a creepy new metric

NSA chief: agency programs prevented over 50 potential terrorist acts | Reuters:

""In recent years these programs, together with other intelligence, have protected the U.S. and our allies from terrorist threats across the globe to include helping prevent ... potential terrorist events over 50 times since 9/11," he said in testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committee"

Makes Minority Report look like tomorrow's newspaper.

(Also "together with other intelligence"? Really?)