Page 47 - William Binney News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The laws covering s.e.c. regulations. so it's basically a violation of the constitutional rights of everybody in the united states. >>steve: yeah, but william, people are watching this right now and they're going we've been told by our politicians and our government we're doing this for your own good. what about that argument? >> no, they're doing it for their good so they can have information about people in the united states use it to control them. that's what the totalitarian states have done all along. that's why i said we're about that far from a totalitarian state. >>steve: the informati...

Has internally in the united states. when you do that and collect only that and ignore everybody else in the country because that's not relevant, then you have the support network for the terrorist inside the united states, like finding a column inside the country. you watch jihadi sites and sites that promote that kind of activity and see who's going to them. you don't need to monitor everybody in the country to do that. >>steve: that's what they're doing all in the name of trying to keep us safe. >> the problem is the terrorists already know we're doing a lot of this any way, so collecting o...

0 authorities to wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a federal judge, to even the president if i had a personal e-mail. i had access to, you know, the rosters of everyone working at the n.s.a., the entire intelligence community and undercover assets around the world, the locations of every station, we have what their missions are and so forth. it i had just wanted to harm the u.s., you know, you could shut down the surveillance system in an afternoon. but that's not my intention. >>gretchen: he could have also sold all that information for money. then he officially would have been a ...

email. >> of edward snowden -- the whistleblower behind the explosive revelations about the national security agency and u.s. surveillance state. three weeks ago the 29-year-old left his job working inside the nsa's office in hawaii where he worked for the private intelligence firm booz allen hamilton. today he is in hong kong not sure if he'll ever see his home again. >> it is getting to the point, you don't have to have done anything wrong, just eventually fall under suspicion, even by a wrong call, then they can use the system to go back in time and scrutinized every decision you ...

06/10/13 06/10/13 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] >> from pacifica, this is democracy now! any analyst at any time can target anyone anywhere. where those communications where will -- will be picked up and the authorities the analyst is empowered with, not all analysts have the ability to target everything, but sitting at my desk i certainly had the authority to wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a federal judge to even the president if i had a personal email. >> of edward snowden -- the whistleblower behind the explosive revelations about the national securit...