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Whistleblowers

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no more banksters

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Fri Mar 25, 2016, 07:59 AM Mar 2016

'9/11 was a gift to the NSA ...' [View all]

The exceptional documentary by Friedrich Moser 'A Good American' deconstructs completely the image of the National Security Agency, one of the most powerful intelligence agencies in the world. Through the revealing stories of former NSA employees who became whistleblowers - like William Binney, Diane Roark and Thomas Andrews Drake - the agency appears that it has become a field of personal ambitions and money hunting through huge funds from the central government.

Moreover, the experienced, top analyst, William Binney (who is the central figure of the documentary), deconstructs the myth of an organization that is supposed to be pioneer in new technologies. He presents NSA as an organization which had certain difficulties to follow the explosive progress of the computer technology during 1990s, in order to modernize its obsolete equipment as fast as possible.

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the most mind-blowing revelation comes from Binney's NSA colleague Thomas Drake. At one point, Drake recalls how a Senior Military Officer dismissed Osama bin Laden as “a raghead spouting off about a fatwa in the desert” in response to their intelligence reports on Al Qaeda in the late 90s. After the events of 9/11, Drake quotes his former NSA boss Maureen Baginski who reportedly said “9/11 was a gift to the NSA, we’re gonna get all the money we need and then some.”

http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2016/03/911-was-gift-to-nsa.html

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'9/11 was a gift to the NSA ...' [View all] no more banksters Mar 2016 OP
it came with a card, too AgerolanAmerican Mar 2016 #1
It's my theory that to create deception removeslander Sep 2018 #2
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