Whistleblower’s NSA warning: ‘Just the tip of the iceberg’By Shaun Waterman The Washington Times
Friday, June 7, 2013
The National Security Agency’s collection of phone data from all of Verizon’s U.S. customers is just the “tip of the iceberg,†says a former NSA official who estimates the agency has data on as many as 20 trillion phone calls and emails by U.S. citizens.
William Binney, an award-winning mathematician and noted NSA whistleblower, says the collection dates back to when the super-secret agency began domestic surveillance after the Sept. 11 attacks.
“I believe they’ve been collecting data about all domestic calls since October 2001,†said Mr. Binney, who worked at NSA for more than 30 years. “That’s more than a billion calls a day.â€
Thomas Drake, another NSA whistleblower was on Huckabee's show last night. He said that what the NSA has been doing is;
"it's routine. We now have a systemic and institutionalized surveillance system on an industrial scale".
He also said that there is a digital index of your life and that there are no controls at all, and what controls there are, are not subject to public review or debate.
He has been charged with espionage. Obama called him a hero in '08, but in '12 he touts how many leakers and whistleblowers he's gone after, more so than all other Administrations combines.
