This comes Via Joe Farah’s WorldNetDaily:
First the Video:
The Story:
Did you ever get the feeling you were being watched?
And watched by the government?
There’s very good reason to feel that way, says a whistleblower from the National Security Agency who says everyone in the U.S. is under virtual surveillance by federal authorities.
In an interview with RT, William Binney, a former mathematician and code breaker at the NSA, says the FBI records the emails of nearly all Americans, including members of Congress, and warns that the government can use this information against anyone.
“The FBI has access to the data collected, which is basically the emails of virtually everybody in the country. And the FBI has access to it,” Binney said.
“All the congressional members are on the surveillance, too, no one is excluded. They are all included. So, yes, this can happen to anyone. If they become a target for whatever reason – they are targeted by the government, the government can go in, or the FBI, or other agencies of the government, they can go into their database, pull all that data collected on them over the years, and we analyze it all. So, we have to actively analyze everything they’ve done for the last 10 years at least.”
This is not entirely surprising to me at all. I have long suspected that the Government was spying on everyone via Internet. This was a direct result of the attacks on 9/11.
The only quibble I have with this little report is this right here:
“I don’t think they are filtering it. They are just storing it,” Binney told RT. “I think it’s just a matter of selecting when they want it. So, if they want to target you, they would take your attributes, go into that database and pull out all your data.”
You notice he says, “I don’t think…” You see he does not know any of this for a fact, he noticed that the Government was scanning information, using data miners for terrorist activity and basically freaked and left the NSA. However, I am encouraged to see the following; but I am dismayed at the same time:
Binney actually blew the whistle on NSA practices during the term of President George W. Bush, but with President Barack Obama now in office, he says, “it’s getting worse. They are doing more. He is supporting the building of the Bluffdale facility, which is over two billion dollars they are spending on storage room for data. That means that they are collecting a lot more now and need more storage for it. That facility by my calculations that I submitted to the court for the Electronic Frontiers Foundation against NSA would hold on the order of 5 zettabytes of data. Just that current storage capacity is being advertised on the web that you can buy. And that’s not talking about what they have in the near future.”
Now this is where Mr. Binney gets partisan. I doubt very highly that there is any real difference between George W. Bush and President Obama. Both supported Big Government and just because one was a Neoconservative and the other a Neo-Liberal (or one white and one black) does not mean that one is more bigger Government than the other.
The important fact is that the Government is doing this at all; as it violates the Constitution of the United States of American. However, to be fair and balanced, sort of like a Network that we all know about; essentially, the United States Government was caught with its proverbial pants down on 9/11 and the terrorists were in this Country flying under the radar, so to speak. So, the United States had to employ some controversial tactics to catch up with these idiots to catch them, before they hurt anyone else.
This, of course, sent the Constitutionalists into a tizzy and rightly so. Now, the Government has maintained that they only record calls going out of the Country and not domestic calls. This man says otherwise. Now, do I believe him? I have no opinion, and I present it to you to make up your minds. I just think we, as Americans, ought not trust our Government, especially while it is under control of an Government expansionist like Obama. At the same time, I believe it would be a idiotic mistake to believe that any Republicans would actually decrease the size of Government, as long as the Neoconservative right controls the Republican Party.