So international cables going down weren't accidents?

At least not to the governments tapping them, in 2008 and 2011.

You think you need to sort all of that data to stop a few jihadi?  Hell no.  Stop letting oil-money run your governments, more like.  Use a little old style spy-craft.  Put the pressure on the Wahhabi governments, instead of letting their representatives get out of the US after 911 discreetly.

This is about us: you and me.

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.
-  Thomas Jefferson

Except the issue is less government than the class which runs them.