PRISM and Stellar Wind Programs

[sabrina 1]

27. Huh?? I asked if you remembered BINNEY. This is all you remember of Binney? Then let me help you:

Since you are using Binney as a source to back you up, I assume you have respect for his opinions.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/

The former NSA official held his thumb and forefinger close together: “We are that far from a turnkey totalitarian state.”

Binney

But there's so much more, not just from Binney, but since you have such confidence in his opinions I will limit the information we have been provided with to just him, for now:

Binney left the NSA in late 2001, shortly after the agency launched its warrantless-wiretapping program. “They violated the Constitution setting it up,” he says bluntly. “But they didn’t care. They were going to do it anyway, and they were going to crucify anyone who stood in the way. When they started violating the Constitution, I couldn’t stay.” Binney says Stellar Wind was far larger than has been publicly disclosed and included not just eavesdropping on domestic phone calls but the inspection of domestic email. At the outset the program recorded 320 million calls a day, he says, which represented about 73 to 80 percent of the total volume of the agency’s worldwide intercepts. The haul only grew from there. According to Binney—who has maintained close contact with agency employees until a few years ago—the taps in the secret rooms dotting the country are actually powered by highly sophisticated software programs that conduct “deep packet inspection,” examining Internet traffic as it passes through the 10-gigabit-per-second cables at the speed of light.

'This close to a turnkey totalitarian state!! Considering he's so highly respected and knows so much about it and was so frightened for his country, he was honorable enough to quit rather than participate in these crimes against the people, AND to risk his own career and reputation to warn the American people, I find what he has to say chilling, and certainly way more important than the personality traits of bloggers and whistle blowers.