The NSAC is a part of the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force ( FTTTF ) . According to the FBI , the FTTTF was created after 9/11 to " provide information that helps keep foreign terrorists and their supporters out of the U.S. or leads to their removal , detention , prosecution or other legal action " . Budget documents say that the NSAC is a data mining operation that tries to help the FTTTF predict whether someone is a terrorist or might have ties to terrorists
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September 11 attacks
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