New York Times Opinion
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8:28 · 447K views · Aug 29, 2012
A New York Times Op-Doc by Laura Poitras profiling William Binney, a 32-year NSA veteran who helped design a secret program he says collects Americans' personal data.
Cited as a primary source for Binney's claims about NSA surveillance, including the FBI raid on his home.
3 comments from Hacker News
This is a blatant lie. But I guess this is the type of propaganda and JTRIG ops that we have to get used to. [LINK] > Thomas Drake, William Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe belong to a select fraternity: the NSA officials who paved the way. > Not only did they go through multiple and all the proper internal channels and they failed, but more than that, it was turned against them. ... The inspector general was the one who gave their names to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution under the Espionage Act. And they were all targets of a federal criminal investigation, and Tom ended up being prosecuted — and it was for blowing the whistle. William Binney describing the FBI raid on his house while he was in the shower: this video and > Top NSA Watchdog Who Insisted Snowden Should Have Come to Him Receives Termination Notice for Retaliating Against a Whistleblower [LINK]
their definition (via secret interpretation of USSID 18, according to Bill Binney[1]) is roughly that it's only collected if they actually go back and look at it at some point down the line. your web browsing history (or whatever) sitting on a hard drive in utah doesn't fall under this definition until they look at it. [1] this video
An executive of one of the US's largest private social graph repositories ends up working for the largest US spy agency known for maintaining their own "Big Ass Graph (BAG)" for many years longer* and it's "just a coincidence"?! Let me guess - NSA couldn't find anyone else who knew how to manage Hadoop. *Binney - this video