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>> before he resigned for reasons we will tell you about in a second. >> where is this coming from are we talking about e-mail traffic or phone calls? >> it would be just about any of that and maybe more. >> they should be concerned about letting the government go too far in the name of security. >> that is george other win that is 1984 that is what that would look like. >> he is not alone in feeling that way. >> he worked at the nsa for nearly four decades. >> after 9-11 it became a warrantless program approved president bush. >> it started with the billing

Government to do this kind of activity. after all, collecting this kind of knowledge about the citizenry is dangerous for the government to have. >> you left -- you left the nsa back in 2001 because you thought that there were some things happening even then, this was 12 years ago that crossed the line. what line did it cross and what was the final straw for you and you said that's it, i'm done? >> well it was because they started collecting billing data from the telecoms. the one that was initially participating was at&t and they were given 200 million records of u.s. citizens talking to othe...

From bill benny that worked at the nsa nearly four decades, starting as a data analyst in the days before desktop computers. after 9/11, the nsa began a warrantless surveillance program approved by president bush. >> it started with the telecoms providing billing data, records of people in the united states calling people in the united states. my estimate was that they were collecting on the order of 3 billion a day. >> 3 billion phone records? >> 3 billion, just spernl inter this country. >> they were spying on americans in this country. >> that's right. >> binney thought it was wrong and led...

Security is have a perfect security team. >> he is not alone feeling that way. whatever you did electronically. >> they have been there for four decades starting with a data analyst in the days before procedures. they began a surveillance program approved president bush. >> it started with the telecoms providing billing data, records of people in the united states calling people in the united states. my estimate was they were collected in the order of 3 billion a day. >> that is just internal. >> benny thought it was wrong. quit in protest. meet the streer of the nsa surveillance program in th...

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