was indicted on five counts of espionage. the government dropped the charges for him to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor of misusing a government computer. i continue to believe it was effective. it was lawful and it was appropriate. as the director of the nsa from 1999 to 2005 general michael hayden was drake and binney s boss. they may have a different view, god bless them, this is america, have a different view. i think it made america safe during a period of great danger. hayden says binney and drake were wrong, uninformed when they said the program was illegal. apparently congress amended the foreign intelligence surveillance act legalizing much of the surveillance going on and president obama agreed. that makes drake as worried as
washington think tank where he was speaking at an event. will it hold the data of american citizens? no, we don t hold data on u.s. citizens. the people there at nsa. they take protecting your civil liberties and privacy as the most important thing they do in securing this nation. and so when people just throw out they will have all this stuff at utah data center that is baloney. i will not say here is what we are doing at utah. that would be ridiculous, too, because it would give our adversaries a tremendous advantage and we are not going to do that. binney says this is not about the character of the former nsa colleagues. it the about the possibility of the government s stunning encompass at this time collect store and analyze data will tempt less than noble leaders if not know than in the future. really a turnkey situation where it could be turned
billing data records of people in the united states calling people in the united states. my estimate was they were collecting on the order of 3 billion a day. 3 billion phone records. just internal to the country. in simple terms nsa is spying on americans inseidenberg of this country. that s correct. binney thought it was wrong and quit in protest. someone leaked the sore storery to the new york times which exposed it in 2005. in 2007 the nsa officially discontinued the program. the same year suspecting he was a source for the new york times leaks the fbi raided bill binney s home. my son answered the door and they he pushed him back at sun point and they came upstairs and i was in the shower and one guy came in and pointed the gun at my head and said come out. he ultimately was not charged with any crimes but a fell le whistle blower was. remember tom drake? his house was searched and he
was indicted on five counts of espionage. the government dropped the charges for him to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor of misusing a government computer. i continue to believe it was effective. it was lawful and it was appropriate. as the director of the nsa from 1999 to 2005 general michael hayden was drake and binney s boss. they may have a different view, god bless them, this is america, have a different view. i think it made america safe during a period of great danger. hayden says binney and drake were wrong, uninformed when they said the program was illegal. apparently congress amended the foreign intelligence surveillance act legalizing much of the surveillance going on and president obama agreed. that makes drake as worried as
washington think tank where he was speaking at an event. will it hold the data of american citizens? no, we don t hold data on u.s. citizens. the people there at nsa. they take protecting your civil liberties and privacy as the most important thing they do in securing this nation. and so when people just throw out they will have all this stuff at utah data center that is baloney. i will not say here is what we are doing at utah. that would be ridiculous, too, because it would give our adversaries a tremendous advantage and we are not going to do that. binney says this is not about the character of the former nsa colleagues. it the about the possibility of the government s stunning encompass at this time collect store and analyze data will tempt less than noble leaders if not know than in the future. really a turnkey situation where it could be turned