Posted on December 18, 2013 by WashingtonsBlog
32-year NSA Veteran Who
Created Mass Surveillance System Says Government Use of Data Gathered Through
Spying “Is a Totalitarian Process”
Bill Binney is the
high-level NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance
program for digital information. A 32-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a
“legend” within the agency, Binney was the senior technical director within the
agency and managed thousands of NSA employees.
Binney has been interviewed
by virtually all of the mainstream media, including CBS, ABC, CNN, New York Times, USA Today, Fox News, PBS and many others.
Last year, Binney held his
thumb and forefinger close together, and said:
We are, like, that far from
a turnkey totalitarian state.
But today, Binney told
Washington’s Blog that the U.S. has already become a police state.
By way of background, the
government is spying on virtually everything we do.
All of the information gained by the NSA
through spying is then shared with federal,
state and local agencies, and they are using that information to prosecute petty crimes such as drugs and
taxes. The agencies are instructed to intentionally “launder” the
information gained through spying, i.e. to pretend that they got the
information in a more legitimate way … and to hide that
from defense attorneys and judges.
This is a bigger deal than
you may realize, as legal experts say that there are so many federal and state
laws in the United States, that no
one can keep track of them all … and everyone violates laws
every day without even knowing it.
The NSA also ships
Americans’ most confidential, sensitive information to foreign
countries like Israel (and here), the UK and other countries … so they can “unmask” the information and
give it back to the NSA … or use it for their own purposes.
Binney told us today:
The main use of the
collection from these [NSA spying] programs [is] for law enforcement. [See the
2 slides below].
These slides give the policy
of the DOJ/FBI/DEA etc. on how to use the NSA data. In fact, they instruct that
none of the NSA data is referred to in courts – cause it has been acquired
without a warrant.
So, they have to do a
“Parallel Construction” and not tell the courts or prosecution or defense the
original data used to arrest people. This I call: a “planned programed perjury
policy” directed by US law enforcement.
And, as the last line on one
slide says, this also applies to “Foreign Counterparts.”
This is a total corruption
of the justice system not only in our country but around the world. The source
of the info is at the bottom of each slide. This is a totalitarian process
– means we are now in a police state.
Here are the two slides
which Binney pointed us to:
[2 images]
(Source: Reuters via RT;
SOD stands for “Special Operations Division,” a branch of a federal government agency.)
We asked Binney a follow-up
question:
You say “this also applies
to ‘Foreign Counterparts.’” Does that mean that foreign agencies can also
“launder” the info gained from NSA spying? Or that data gained through foreign
agencies’ spying can be “laundered” and used by U.S. agencies?
Binney responded:
For countries like the five
eyes (US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand) and probably some others it
probably works both ways. But for others that have relationships with FBI or
DEA etc., they probably are given the data used to arrest people but are not
told the source or given copies of the data.
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