This is just to beg someone like Jesselyn Radack or any other diarist, who have followed
the NSA's whistleblower William Binney to cover his interview today on Democracy Now.
It blew me away...
Update:
First transcript out of four is now available here:Exclusive: National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance
Update I:
Second transcript out of four is now available here: Detained in the U.S.: Filmmaker Laura Poitras Held, Questioned Some 40 Times at U.S. Airports
Update II:
Third transcript out of four is now available here: "We Don't Live in a Free Country": Jacob Appelbaum on Being Target of Widespread Government Surveillance
Update III:
The last and fourth transcript (imo the most important) is now available here: Whistleblower (William Binney): The NSA is Lying–U.S. Government Has Copies of Most of Your Emails Pay attention to TC 48:17 - 50:40.
It is beyond my skills and knowledge to write about the interview and its meaning, but I believe that everybody should listen and later read the transcript of today's exclusive roundtable discussion with Jacob Applebaum, (a computer security researcher who volunteered with Wikileaks), Former National Security Agency William Binney and Filmmaker Laura Poitras. Jesselyn had written about Laura Poitras a couple of days ago: here. It might not be news to many, but today's interview put it all together and causes me to read the articles below in its entirety.
The interview starts at TC 13:09.
1. Wired Magazine article from James Bamford:
NSA Chief Denies Domestic Spying But Whistleblowers Say Otherwise.
2. The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say).
It's also interesting to refer back to what Emptywheel had reported on the same subject earlier here: NSA Managers Modified or Surpressed Studies on ThinThread and Trailblazer .
Transcript will be online later on Democracy Now. Make sure you listen to it to the very end.
The round-table discussion will be continued at the Whitney Museum in NY this evening (as a teach-in forum), if I understand it correctly and most probably will be available online later.