THE GOVERNMENT IS PROFILING YOU
Speaker: William Binney, Former National Security Agency, Technical Director of the World Geopolitical and
Date: Monday, November 19 2012
Time: 6:00PM to 7:30PM
Location: 32-141
Host: MIT CIS Group and The Computers, Freedom and Priva
Contact: Be Blackburn, 3-6098, imbe@mit.edu
Relevant URL: http://www.whistleblower.org/program-areas/homeland-security-a-human-rights/surveillance/nsa-whistleblowers-bill-binney-a-j-kirk-wiebe
While spreading an atmosphere of fear after 9/11, our government has
violated our laws, prevented the Congress and courts from doing
their Constitutional duty, created a surveillance state and
concentrated power in the executive, all in the name of keeping us
safe. In an effort to reverse these ongoing unconstitutional
activities, William Binney revealed the National Security Agency's
massive domestic spying program, Stellar Wind, which intercepts
domestic communications without protections for US
citizens. Binney disclosed that NSA sought and received access to
telecommunications companies' domestic and international billing
records.
He told the public that, since 9/11, the agency has intercepted
between 15 and 20 trillion communications. Binney also revealed
that the NSA concealed Stellar Wind under the patriotic-sounding
"Terrorist Surveillance Program," in order to give cover to the
warrantless surveillance program's violations of Americans'
constitutional rights.
Here are two related Wired magazine articles by James Bamford:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/shady-companies-nsa/
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