Inside the NSA’s Domestic Surveillance Apparatus: Whistleblower William Binney Speaks Out - DemNow

[WillyT]

Watch Part 1 of Interview with William Binney

William Binney describes how his former agency has built a massive system to track, monitor and record phone and Internet communications of U.S. citizens and people around the world. Binney resigned from the National Security Agency in 2001 to protest growing domestic surveillance. He was a senior NSA crypto-mathematician largely responsible for automating the agency’s worldwide eavesdropping network. He was one of the two co-founders of the agency’s Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center. He resigned after the Sept. 11 attacks. In 2012 he gave his first ever television interview to Democracy Now!

Link: http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/6/10/inside_the_nsas_domestic_surveillance_apparatus_whistleblower_william_binney_speaks_out

[Laelth]

1. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[rhett o rick]

2. k&r thanks for posting.

[PDittie]

3. I sure hope Amy Goodman

doesn't get smeared on DU for being a high school dropout (or something similarly unrelated).

[Hell Hath No Fury]

5. Too late --

there is already a noob spouting off about how she -- along with the Guardian, Jeremy Scahill, Greenwald, Salon -- is untrustworthy and essentially a ratfucker out to do Obama in.

I. Kid. You. Not.

[WillyT]

6. LOL !!!

Suggestion for a new Forum: The Kiddie's Table.

[PDittie]

10. I must have

those fuckwads on Ignore already.

[marions ghost]

4. thank you for posting

good to get another perspective.

[snappyturtle]

7. Here's a video of Binney in 2012...8 min. long....very damning of NSA.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/the-national-security-agencys-domestic-spying-program.html?_r=0

This video was made in August 2012.

[WillyT]

8. Thank You For That !!!

[snappyturtle]

11. You're welcome!

The video is done in a more relaxed manner....shows some pics of Bluffdale being built and then, of course, some of it is redundant...but

[reformist2]

9. Obama spoke as if there was no constitution he had to abide by.

These "modest encroachments on privacy" he's talking about, well guess what, those are real violations of the 4th Amendment.

[JDPriestly]

12. This is a moving video.

I am reminded of the many, many young Americans who volunteered to fight in the Civil War on the side of the Union to free people -- black slaves about whom they knew very little other than that they were the victims of terrible injustice.

A couple of my ancestors did that very thing -- volunteer to fight for the Union in the Civil War. I always look to their example. They are my heroes. They fought for freedom. It was the real deal.

Again, we face a choice between slavery or freedom only now it isn't just bound slaves who will suffer if we allow this injustice to continue. We will all face the repercussions. We will all face the loss of freedom of expression and association as well as the diminution of other freedoms.

We really must turn these abuses around. I am not at all convinced that the choice is between security of freedom. I think the government has to do a lot to prove that, in the balance, the threat to our freedom from these programs is equal to the threat of terrorism in our country. If we lose our basic liberties, the terrorists have achieved what they set out to do.

I think this is a bureaucracy run wild. It is tyranny in its infancy.

[blkmusclmachine]

13. .

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[DirkGently]

14. Hold on ... what's his educational background,

... and has he ever been seen with a Chinese Libertarian?

The People want to know!

[marmar]

15. k/r