William Binney, Ray McGovern and Other Intel Experts Call Russian Hacking Allegations Baseless

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14. William Binney & Kirk Weibe aren't partisan hacks. They are NSA whisleblowers from 2002

William Binney (U.S. intelligence official)

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In September 2002, he, along with J. Kirk Wiebe and Edward Loomis, asked the U.S. Defense Department Inspector General (DoD IG) to investigate the NSA for allegedly wasting "millions and millions of dollars" on Trailblazer, a system intended to analyze mass collection of data carried on communications networks such as the Internet. Binney had been one of the inventors of an alternative system, ThinThread, which was shelved when Trailblazer was chosen instead. Binney has also been publicly critical of the NSA for spying on U.S. citizens, saying of its expanded surveillance after the September 11, 2001 attacks that "it's better than anything that the KGB, the Stasi, or the Gestapo and SS ever had"[10] as well as noting Trailblazer's ineffectiveness and unjustified high cost compared to the far less intrusive ThinThread.[11] He was furious that the NSA hadn't uncovered the 9/11 plot and stated that intercepts it had collected but not analyzed likely would have garnered timely attention with his leaner more focused system.[8]

Read more at Wikileaks. ( A Google URL shortener was used due to problems with the original link.)

https://goo.gl/i1rSTO

Original link which is broken:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(U.S._intelligence_official)#Whistleblowing

William Binney was considered one of the best analysts in NSA history . I wouldn't dismiss him or the others so readily...

Binney was a Russia specialist and worked in the operations side of intelligence, starting as an analyst and ending as a Technical Director prior to becoming a geopolitical world Technical Director. In the 1990s, he co-founded a unit on automating signals intelligence with NSA research chief Dr. John Taggart.[6] Binney's NSA career culminated as Technical Leader for intelligence in 2001. Having expertise in intelligence analysis, traffic analysis, systems analysis, knowledge management, and mathematics (including set theory, number theory, and probability),[7] Binney has been described as one of the best analysts in the NSA's history.[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(U.S._intelligence_official)#Biography