When I see little spooks going door to door this evening, I will think of it as National William Binney Resignation Day - a hallowed eve indeed. On October 31, 2001, Binney resigned his position at the NSA and blew the whistle, for which he was soundly hauled through the mud, smearing his name and ruining his business.
Business Insider
Binney disclosed in a sworn affidavit for Jewel v. NSA that the [NSA] was "purposefully violating the Constitution".
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After he left the NSA in 2001, Binney was one of several people investigated as part of an inquiry into the 2005 New York Times exposé on the agency’s warrantless eavesdropping program. Binney was cleared of wrongdoing after three interviews with FBI agents beginning in March 2007, but one morning in July 2007, a dozen agents armed with rifles appeared at his house, one of whom entered the bathroom and pointed his gun at Binney, still towelling off from a shower. In that raid, the FBI confiscated a desktop computer, disks, and personal and business records. The NSA revoked his security clearance, forcing him to close a business he ran with former colleagues at a loss of a reported $300,000 in annual income.
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Thanks to NSA whistleblower/leaker Edward Snowden, documents detailing the top-secret surveillance program [Stellar Wind] have now been published [...].
And they corroborate what Binney has said [...] .
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