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Of knowledge about the citizenry is a very dangerous thing for the government to have. >> i want to bring up, 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 when you said that's it, i'm done? >> well, it was because they started collecting billing data from the telecoms. the one i knew that was participating was at&t, they were giving on the order of 320 million records every day of u.s. citizens talking to other u.s. citizens. well, give...

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...

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