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In reply to the discussion: Edward Snowden, my book with Scott Ritter, and the art of exploiting the messenger vs. the message [View all]ReRe
(12,189 posts)... ,whistleblower William Binney explained exactly how they do it. They can put a file together lickity-split, because all the info has been collected. Everything about you, your effing life story, can be retrieved at the stoke of a computer keyboard. It's google-exponential-extraordinaire. The minute they want to black-ball someone, they can do it at the speed of effing light. The titillating talking points are then shot over to every M$N on earth. Hell, they probably know stuff about us that even WE don't know! This is what they did to Ritter. Or what they will do on any dissenter who makes a little too much noise. The Father of this kind of surveillance was none other than J. Edgar Hoover.
Here's a great interview with William Binney that not many have heard (to my knowledge):
http://www.dailycaller.com/2013/06/10/what-do-they-know-about-you-an-interview-with-nsa-analyst-william-binney/