National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance
April 20th, 2012As of 2001, “Twenty terabytes a minute.”
“You can build up knowledge about everyone in the country. And having that knowledge then allows them the ability to concoct all kinds of charges if they want to target you.”
“The data that’s being assembled is about everybody. From that data then they can target anyone they want.”
Via: Democracy Now:
In his first television interview since he resigned from the National Security Agency over its domestic surveillance program, William Binney discusses the NSA’s massive power to spy on Americans and why the FBI raided his home after he became a whistleblower. Binney was a key source for investigative journalist James Bamford’s recent exposé in Wired Magazine about how the NSA is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah. The Utah spy center will contain near-bottomless databases to store all forms of communication collected by the agency, including private emails, cell phone calls, Google searches and other personal data.
Binney served in the NSA for over 30 years, including a time as technical director of the NSA’s World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group. Since retiring from the NSA in 2001, he has warned that the NSA’s data-mining program has become so vast that it could “create an Orwellian state.” Today marks the first time Binney has spoken on national television about NSA surveillance.
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Getting pretty tired about this invading our personal life crap as well as the war on the whistleblower shit going down in this, our universe. Think its time for lots of Cryptogon reader brains to unite, and focus our brains and energy on visualizing a zap the intruders out confernce. Just think of the power we could harness to destroy the intrusive enemies. It would be an exercise.
Like visualizing the Cheney’s new heart feeling so much love that the brain would explode cause it couldn’t handle the concept. Along those lines I’m thinking.
This thing feed on hate and the cringing of humans who fear them.
Spy on me you lovely bastards. I open my (*%$#) to you.
Peace and love you wild hippies.
i always believed that any security based on secrecy was no security at all. and that the more secret something was, the more conspicuous it was for it. ‘that which is hidden shall be known to be hidden’ was my own summary phrase to my own mind.
with that said, it seems to me when all else is forcibly made transparent, that which is held in secret stands out even more.
from my perspective, the gross growth of state surveillance appears to me to be more revealing than concealing…