Holy Mother Of God... You KNOW It's Bad When The NSA Tech Director Resigns Over Wire Tapping !!! [View all]

[WillyT]

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CORRECTION: He resigned because of NSA spying on Americans... before TrapWire... TrapWire is just a privatized version of what the NSA has been doing.

Two weeks ago, former NSA Technical Director William Binney shocked attendants at the DefCon hacker conference when he made this revelation: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/binney-on-alexander-and-nsa/

The NSA was indeed collecting e-mails, Twitter writings, internet searches and other data belonging to Americans and indexing it.

“Unfortunately, once the software takes in data, it will build profiles on everyone in that data,” he said. “You can simply call it up by the attributes of anyone you want and it’s in place for people to look at.”

He said the NSA began building its data collection system to spy on Americans prior to 9/11, and then used the terrorist attacks that occurred that year as the excuse to launch the data collection project.

“It started in February 2001 when they started asking telecoms for data,” Binney said. “That to me tells me that the real plan was to spy on Americans from the beginning.” <...>

“The reason I left the NSA was because they started spying on everybody in the country. That’s the reason I left,” said Binney, who resigned from the agency in late 2001.

From: http://my.firedoglake.com/thecallup/2012/08/10/welcome-to-the-police-state-where-you-must-fear-your-freedoms/