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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...

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...

It very much. there was a a need to be up on enemy intelligence. >> this form of stretchry shall never again endanger us. >> after world war ii came the cold war and the threat of global communism. it sparked a fierce debate at the highest levels regarding is citizens' rights versus international security and rot of that debate ultimately came the national security agency or nsa. in the 1950s the spy center was so secretive the joke was the initials stood for no such agency. >> what did the president know and when did he know it? >> after watergate, however, people wanted to know what the spy ...

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 ...

They are going to be doing but the specifics and details you need to get from them. >> all they would tell us is that the utah data center is a facility for the intelligence community that will have a major foe he cuss on cyber security. >> we are going to take off. >> we weren't given access to we took to the sky. >> i want you look real close because right now we are 500 feet over the utah data center and this is as close as you will get without a security clearance. >> actually see the cranes right now at 12:00. >> from the sky it is huge. >> it is gigantic. >> two weeks after our aerial fi...