Whistleblower Bill Binney, Former Technical Director of the NSA, Goes In-Depth on the Surveillance State

CovertAction Bulletin

Today we turn to whistleblower Bill Binney, the former intelligence official and Technical Director of the National Security Agency, and go in-depth on the surveillance state, how 9/11 could have been avoided, Russiagate and more...

Bill resigned in the wake of 9/11 after more than 30 years with the NSA. He was a critic of his former employers during the Bush Sr. and Jr. administrations, and later criticized the NSA's data-collection policies during the Obama administration. More recently, he demonstrated with technical evidence that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 U.S. elections by hacking into the DNC servers.

After the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, Bill and his team were fast developing a program called ThinThread to monitor all communications around the world. The Nation reported that "despite ThinThread’s proven capacity to collect actionable intelligence, agency director Gen. Michael Hayden vetoed the idea of deploying the system in August 2001, just three weeks before 9/11." Hayden’s decisions, the whistleblowers told The Nation, "left the NSA without a system to analyze the trillions of bits of foreign SIGINT flowing over the Internet at warp speed, as ThinThread could do."

After discarding Bill's ThinThread program, which cost $3.2 million and used encryption to block out certain aspects of communications that might violate the U.S. constitution, among other things, Hayden implemented TrailBlazer instead, which violated numerous U.S. constitutional protections and cost 1,000 times more.

Not that we at CAM are in favor of any surveillance program, even Bill, as he tells us in this interview, celebrates the fact that he quit and never delivered an even more powerful program that would automatically produce reports on actionable intelligence.

Jeremy Kuzmarov, the Managing Editor at CAM, and Chris Agee, Executive Editor, sat down with Bill last September (2020) and discussed his work with the NSA, why he quit, and his views on the current surveillance state. Among other revelations, Bill provides evidence demonstrating that the DNC hack by the Russians was a false flag event and that the surveillance state is slipping into what he calls 'total population control toward totalitarianism.'

See the attached slides Bill uses in his talks exposing the worldwide surveillance state.

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