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NSA Whistleblower Speaks Out on Verizon, PRISM, and the Utah Data Center
Libertas Institute ^ | June 7, 2013 | William Binney (interview)

Posted on 06/07/2013 9:09:15 PM PDT by Texas Fossil

Editor’s note: The following is a lightly-edited transcription of an interview with William Binney, a former employee with the NSA who after over 30 years with the agency quit and became a whistleblower, bringing to light many of their illegal activities and mass surveillance of American citizens.

Libertas Institute: Please describe your work experience with the NSA.

William Binney: For approximately 28 years, I was primarily involved in breaking codes and dealing with ciphers and data systems and solving those, and working with data, trying to do threat assessment with all of that data that we had.

After a while, I became the Technical Director of the World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group. What that meant was that I had to expand my thinking around the world, and the major problem was data with the web and everything. That’s when I started designing programs to handle that information and be able to select out what was important and what wasn’t.

Then I started implementing those programs, and NSA took those programs and started to direct in domestic data. When they did that, that’s when I left. I couldn’t be a party to that.

(Excerpt) Read more at libertasutah.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhogwot; bilderberg; binney; counterterrorism; nsa; nsawhistleblower; obamaspeople; petraeus; prism; privacy; scandals; terrorism; threatmatrix; verizon; whistleblower; williambinney
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To: maggief; penelopesire; thouworm; SE Mom; Nachum

Several links on this thread might be of interest!


41 posted on 06/08/2013 7:04:57 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: Texas Fossil

William Binney speaks out on YouTube. If you want a private conversation do NOT speak in a room with a computer or phone IN THE ROOM. I assume that also applies to ‘smart’ appliances...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfS2Op9l3nk


42 posted on 06/08/2013 7:21:22 AM PDT by GOPJ (MSNBC is to news channels as Ringling Bros' Clown College is to Harvard University. - - Greenfield)
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To: Texas Fossil

They don’t have time to listen to all the conversations - but the software used to ‘make connections’ gives a much clearer picture. Plus if they do need to pinpoint a conversation they can pull it up in seconds.


43 posted on 06/08/2013 7:23:47 AM PDT by GOPJ (MSNBC is to news channels as Ringling Bros' Clown College is to Harvard University. - - Greenfield)
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To: Texas Fossil; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don’t add you to the list...

44 posted on 06/08/2013 7:27:04 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: Texas56

I’m amazed as well ..did you happen to catch Bob Beckel’s rant o Thursday? He’s apoplectic ...even used the f word. .fascism.


45 posted on 06/08/2013 7:31:31 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Texas Fossil
WB: They’re eating crow right now. Those are lies. Those are just outright lies. Obviously they are, with that court order. They’re scooping up the metadata of everything, and the PRISM program is a scoop up of actual content. Emails, video, photographs, all of that—that’s content. So they’re collecting all of it, and it’s a big vacuum. So you know, those are just outright lies.

Scary stuff...

Spooky stuff...

46 posted on 06/08/2013 7:33:54 AM PDT by GOPJ (MSNBC is to news channels as Ringling Bros' Clown College is to Harvard University. - - Greenfield)
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To: jonrick46

OMG


47 posted on 06/08/2013 7:34:04 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Texas Fossil
Related ...

Anonymous [the famous hacker] releases more NSA documents
'Anonymous' released statement and links to documents:

Anonymous releases private NSA documents regarding


And here:

Anonymous Just Leaked a Trove of NSA Documents
48 posted on 06/08/2013 7:40:08 AM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: hoosiermama

It’s the stuff of novels.


49 posted on 06/08/2013 8:24:04 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: TomGuy

Please post on its own thread so more people will see the information


50 posted on 06/08/2013 8:34:59 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: Texas Fossil

Bookmark


51 posted on 06/08/2013 8:52:13 AM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: wxgesr

Thanks. I had seen this type of info referenced, but had never seen an archived site.

Wonder how much is NOT ON the archive?


52 posted on 06/08/2013 9:24:26 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: pepsionice

No, it was not an accidental find.

But there are many people today who have this sense that something terribly wrong is happening to the US.

So “The Source” could be either good or bad.

Guess we will see as this plays out.


53 posted on 06/08/2013 9:35:15 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: GOPJ

Yes, indeed.


54 posted on 06/08/2013 9:37:14 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: GOPJ

How about smart power meters?


55 posted on 06/08/2013 9:39:54 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil
LI: Now that they’ve been challenged, federal officials are claiming that this massive data collection has thwarted a terrorist attack. Assuming that’s even true (not that they have much credibility right now), do you believe that preventing attacks is a justifiable reason to conduct this massive surveillance?

WB: No. You see, I left the government with a way to do it without violating the privacy of U.S. citizens. They chose not to do that. That was a conscious choice that they made.

This was the key question, yet lacked an important piece of follow-up. WHEN was that choice made. I put my guess at 2005-6 because planning for the Utah Data Center was complete by 2007. There would be no reason for a facility that huge were the decision not cast in concrete.

Bush.

56 posted on 06/08/2013 9:41:43 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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To: Carry_Okie

You may be correct.

As bad as I hate to admit it. This does NOT Remove any responsibility from Obozo for the excesses.


57 posted on 06/08/2013 9:51:07 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil
This does NOT Remove any responsibility from Obozo for the excesses.

Of course not. My guess is that the change Zero represents is that he has used it primarily for political purposes. See tag line.

58 posted on 06/08/2013 9:55:26 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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To: Carry_Okie
I think his objection was to the unconstitutional targeting of American citizens. As far as 'stopping terrorism' the goons at NSA didn't catch the Boston Bombers - even with the Russians pleading with them numerous times to take a look at the two. They missed Fort Hood too. Seems all the 'terrorists' they catch are secret.

I suspect the reason is the goons are after Americans who happen to be conservative. In other words ALL Americans are paying taxes to support an organization that targets citizens. And yeah, I'm starting to think they're targeting democrats too.

59 posted on 06/08/2013 10:00:03 AM PDT by GOPJ (MSNBC is to news channels as Ringling Bros' Clown College is to Harvard University. - - Greenfield)
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To: Carry_Okie

agreed.


60 posted on 06/08/2013 10:02:39 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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