You knew this was coming. In the wake of the revelations about the NSA surveillance program, defenders of the system are now trying to claim that PRISM was responsible for stopping a plot to bomb the NYC subways by Najibullah Zazi. However, as people looked into the details, they pointed out that this didn‘t make much sense and, further, that detailed public reports already make it clear that traditional police work had uncovered Zazi‘s plot, not PRISM.