Bill Binney, a 32-year, high-ranking NSA veteran admits that that the United States is a full-blown police state.
This is the man who created the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information.
Not only does the NSA spy on virtually everything we do, it has sent highly confidential, personal information of citizens to other countries, like Israel and the UK.
Some say, “so what, I’m not doing anything wrong so it won’t affect me.” This is quite a narrow point of view mainly 2 reasons:
1 – There are so many laws on the books, virtually everyone breaks laws everyday without knowing it. So if someone in the government did want to ‘put you in your place’, they could. You are not truly free like this.
2 – This information is being collected in order to silence those who would oppose the government as the country descends into a totalitarian state. Anyone who voices decent will have crimes on record that they can be persecuted with. They might not come after you specifically, but they certainly will come after those who defend your rights, even if you won’t.
32-year NSA Veteran Who Created Mass Surveillance System Says Government Use of Data Gathered Through Spying “Is a Totalitarian Process”
Bill Binney is the high-level NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information. A 32-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a “legend” within the agency, Binney was the senior technical director within the agency and managed thousands of NSA employees.
Binney has been interviewed by virtually all of the mainstream media, including CBS, ABC, CNN, New York Times, USA Today, Fox News, PBS and many others.
Last year, Binney held his thumb and forefinger close together, and said:
We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state.
But today, Binney told Washington’s Blog that the U.S. has already become a police state.
By way of background, the government is spying on virtually everything we do.
All of the information gained by the NSA through spying is then shared with federal, state and local agencies, and they are using that information to prosecute petty crimes such as drugs and taxes. The agencies are instructed to intentionally “launder” the information gained through spying, i.e. to pretend that they got the information in a more legitimate way … and to hide that from defense attorneys and judges.
This is a bigger deal than you may realize, as legal experts say that there are so many federal and state laws in the United States, that no one can keep track of them all … and everyone violates laws every day without even knowing it.
The NSA also ships Americans’ most confidential, sensitive information to foreign countries like Israel (and here), the UK and other countries … so they can “unmask” the information and give it back to the NSA … or use it for their own purposes.
Binney told us today:
The main use of the collection from these [NSA spying] programs [is] for law enforcement. [See the 2 slides below].
These slides give the policy of the DOJ/FBI/DEA etc. on how to use the NSA data. In fact, they instruct that none of the NSA data is referred to in courts – cause it has been acquired without a warrant.
So, they have to do a “Parallel Construction” and not tell the courts or prosecution or defense the original data used to arrest people. This I call: a “planned programed perjury policy” directed by US law enforcement.
And, as the last line on one slide says, this also applies to “Foreign Counterparts.”
This is a total corruption of the justice system not only in our country but around the world. The source of the info is at the bottom of each slide. This is a totalitarian process – means we are now in a police state.
Here are the two slides which Binney pointed us to:
(Source: Reuters via RT; SOD stands for “Special Operations Division,” a branch of a federal government agency.)
We asked Binney a follow-up question:
You say “this also applies to ‘Foreign Counterparts.’” Does that mean that foreign agencies can also “launder” the info gained from NSA spying? Or that data gained through foreign agencies’ spying can be “laundered” and used by U.S. agencies?
Binney responded:
For countries like the five eyes (US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand) and probably some others it probably works both ways. But for others that have relationships with FBI or DEA etc., they probably are given the data to used to arrest people but are not told the source or given copies of the data.
so, Snowden was corrected all along the NSA isn’t good !!
Remember free phones,well gov. owns them so they can spy and gather infor.doesn`t take a rocket scientist.
we are in deep $#%&!@* here :/
I agree more Snowdens we neeed, nees to abolish the NSA
Duh! Bill you are telling the American people something we have known ever since Obama came into office!
does he think we dont know this
We might be in a police state but don’t be mistaken and confused. It is the federal police, well not actually the police but the democratic socialist politicians currently in office that put us in the position of a police state.. Try not to get the two confused. From my experience, local, city, county and state cops really didn’t work well with the federal agencies sometimes. Some were OK but many feds become elitist pushy law enforcement agencies and do act like gestapos. Part of that comes from federal officers not being involved on a street level with the citizens they deal with. The difference is the more local law enforcement agencies have more personal ties with the communities and citizens they police. They know the businesses, business people, and regular citizens and are usually very familiar with the criminal element in their area. The best result comes from local police agencies such as city and county. When it comes to state officers they are more distant from the community. Federal officers are completely detached from their local communities, therefore they operate on a more impersonal basis and to be honest, a cold distant basis sometimes.
so how do we stop it, cant, goen too far
Those clowns in D.C don’t think the public knows what is going on.
Don’t lose sight of the SCREW in the middle of the countries stripes going through the EAGLE of freedom. It’s a sign of what’s going on here. We are SCREWED !