[Daily Caller] Twitter has a massive amount of public data that could help detect terrorist attacks, but refuses to share it, according to the head of the NSA.Testifying before the Senate Committee on Armed Services Tuesday, Navy Adm. Mike Rogers and Chairman John McCain engaged in a back-and-forth on how intelligence agencies can use data analyzing services like Dataminr to help detect terrorist attacks as they happen.
"ISIL (Islamic State) remains the most adaptive target I've worked in 35 years as an intelligence professional, sir," Rogers told McCain during his testimony.
McCain then queried the NSA chief on how Dataminr could be a tool to counter the adaptive threat posed by ISIS, citing how the company was able to inform U.S. intelligence agencies about last November's Paris attacks shortly after they began. More recently, Dataminr was also able to notify clients of the Brussels terrorist attacks 10 minutes before traditional media.