Whistleblower: NSA is watching all of us


Whistleblower: NSA is watching all of us
Roger Hedgecock dot com ^ | 7/25/2012 | Roger Hedgecock

Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 1:40:37 PM by JOAT

The TSA, DHS and countless other security agencies have been established to keep America safe from terrorist attacks in post-9/11 America. How far beyond that does the feds' reach really go, though?

The attacks of September 11, 2001 were instrumental in getting the US government to establish counterterrorism agencies to curb future tragedies. Some officials say that they haven't stopped there, though, and are spying on everyone in America.

Testimonies delivered in recent weeks by former employees of the National Security Agency suggest that the government is going beyond what most of America thinks they do in order to keep the country terrorist-free. Former NSA staffers even say that theirs old agency has actually been spying on the entire country — all in the name of national security.

On an interview carried on Current TV's Viewpoint program on Monday, former NSA Technical Director William Binney commented on the state of blanketing surveillance along with colleagues Thomas Drake and Kirk Wiebe, the agency's former senior official and senior analyst, respectively. The broadcast comes on the heels of a series of speeches given by Binney, who has quickly become more known for his whistle-blowing than his work with the NSA. In their latest appearance this week, though, all three former staffers corroborated on earlier accounts by suggesting that America's spy program is really more dangerous that others deem it to be.

Speaking to Viewpoint host Eliot Spitzer, Drake said there was a "key decision made shortly after 9/11, which began to rapidly turn the United States of America into the equivalent of a foreign nation for dragnet blanket electronic surveillance."

Although this accusation has been supported by claims that it is for national security, says that it doesn't stop there. In fact, warns the former NSA official, the government is giving themselves the power to put intel on every American aside for potential future crimes.

"When you open up the Pandora's Box of just getting access to incredible amounts of data, for people that have no reason to be put under suspicion, no reason to have done anything wrong, and just collect all that for potential future use or even current use, it opens up a real danger — and to what else what they could use that data for, particularly when it's all being hidden behind the mantle of national security," Drake said.

Although Drake's accusations seem astounding, they corroborate allegations launched by Binney only a week earlier. Speaking at the Hackers On Planet Earth conference in New York City earlier in the month, Binney addressed a room of thousands by speaking about the NSA's domestic spying. But in a candid interview with journalist Geoff Shively during HOPE, the ex-agency official admitted that things really are rather scary.

"Domestically, they're pulling together all the data about virtually every U.S. citizen in the country and assembling that information, building communities that you have relationships with, and knowledge about you; what your activities are; what you're doing. So the government is accumulating that kind of information about every individual person and it's a very dangerous process," Binney claims.

Both statements from the former NSA official come on the heels of a revelation that law enforcement officers collected the cell phone records of 1.3 million Americans in 2011 alone. By carrying out this and similar requests under provisions in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and using National Security Letters, though, news articles are emerging everyday suggesting that the surveillance of Americans — off the radar and under wraps — is becoming occurring more and more exponentially by the minute.

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  • I well believe it.

  • Big Brother.

  • The officials mentioned in this article are credible............you can count that your name is part of the data base at NSA

  • People who want to be in  control have as a tenet to know all.  All the doctrines which are evident in all of the Socialist ideologies are based on that premise.   None of the people have had in their life a goal to succeed, only to be in someone elses life to control.  They are totally unproductive and depend on what they can take in envy from others.  They are like rats infest, to devour what they can with the least amount of effort,   They prey upon the host.  The part that upsets me is the fact that our United States Codes and the Constitution can stop this, but that can only happen when the people understand that it takes a majority of the people to do it.  Sitting on your butt, and waiting for the next guy to do it will not accomplish anything of merit.  I read a post in another column which states, "Folks I detect hate in the comments", well buster, sometimes it takes hate to understand that kindness does't solve the problem.  Turning the other cheek so far has proven that your head becomes a revolving door.   Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice, and you need to check your insurance.  I keep thinking of all that I have known are not with us anymore, those that are left are at their zenith.  I remember them because I know they fought the good fight, and some gave all.  They would roll over in their graves to see this which we must contend with now.

     

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  • TY  Mr. Riley, My  little  brother  and  me,  have  been  very  concerned, over  a  decade,  and  will  carry  more  weight  in  the  next  decade.. My  pastor ( 6'  5" ) little  brothers  church  went  under  surveillance  in  Las  Cruses, New Mexico..this  year..!! When  churches  all  over  this  country  is  attacked  by  these  spy  data  programs,  Then  take  the `Muslim  mosques  out,  which  they  won't  DO..!!  It's  blatently  guestioning  our  Christianity..!! We  know  where  the  pressure  is coming  from.. and  the  Lord  is  crying  big  tears,  believe  it..!!

  • They can kiss my a$$.  I have a right to free speech and I have a right to defend myself and if it is a "crime" to speak out for the Constitution, then go ahead and label me a "terrorist."  I could care less.  Live free or die!!!!!!!!! 

    • If you are willing to back up those words with powder and lead, I'm all in with you. I know that because of my outspoken stance on Obama and Progressive/Socialists in general, I am high up on that NSA list of "terrorists" !!!

      • Ronald King, I am Rev Beasley, I own a home in El Paso Texas, and you know that the distance to Las Cruses is only 50 miles apart, thru numerous ministers I am associated some have have enlightened me on this topic, the information you posted on this site shocked me to know it was your brother church. I have no doubt my name is on the radar screen along with every minister as well. I trust all is well with the Reverend. God Bless you and your family, if you are a praying man please put my name on your prayer list. Thanks. Aleyua/ Amen

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