theintelhub.com
April 22, 2012
Democracy Now recently released a 4 part series, complete with numerous whistleblowers including former 30 year NSA employee William Binney, that documented government surveillance of everyday citizens as well as journalists inside the United States.
Binney was a major source for a piece in Wired Magazine by journalist James Bamford which documents the huge new NSA spy compound currently being built in Utah.
In part 2 of the series, the outright harassment by the US government of Academy Award nominated journalist Laura Poitras is thoroughly dissected.
The Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras discusses how she has been repeatedly detained and questioned by federal agents whenever she enters the United States. Poitras said the interrogations began after she began working on her documentary, “My Country, My Country,” about post-invasion Iraq.
Computer researcher and Wikileaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum also told his story which involves over a dozen integrations at airports around the country.
He describes being detained more than a dozen times at the airport and interrogated by federal agents who asked about his political views and confiscated his cell phone and laptop. When asked why he cannot talk about what happened after he was questioned, Appelbaum says, “Because we don’t live in a free country. And if I did, I guess I could tell you about it.”
Perhaps the most startling revelations came in part 4 when Binney confirms the belief of another guest that National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander is more powerful than President Barack Obama.
theintelhub.com
April 22, 2012
Democracy Now recently released a 4 part series, complete with numerous whistleblowers including former 30 year NSA employee William Binney, that documented government surveillance of everyday citizens as well as journalists inside the United States.
Binney was a major source for a piece in Wired Magazine by journalist James Bamford which documents the huge new NSA spy compound currently being built in Utah.
In part 2 of the series, the outright harassment by the US government of Academy Award nominated journalist Laura Poitras is thoroughly dissected.
National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney reveals he believes domestic surveillance has become more expansive under President Obama than President George W. Bush. He estimates the NSA has assembled 20 trillion “transactions” — phone calls, emails and other forms of data — from Americans.
This likely includes copies of almost all of the emails sent and received from most people living in the United States.
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