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nyolfen · 2017-04 · Reference

their definition (via secret interpretation of USSID 18, according to Bill Binney[1]) is roughly that it's only collected if they actually go back and look at it at some point down the line. your web browsing history (or whatever) sitting on a hard drive in utah doesn't fall under this definition until they look at it. [1] [VIDEO]

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glitchdout · 2017-01 · Reference

This is a blatant lie. But I guess this is the type of propaganda and JTRIG ops that we have to get used to. [LINK] > Thomas Drake, William Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe belong to a select fraternity: the NSA officials who paved the way. > Not only did they go through multiple and all the proper internal channels and they failed, but more than that, it was turned against them. ... The inspector general was the one who gave their names to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution under the Espionage Act. And they were all targets of a federal criminal investigation, and Tom ended up being prosecuted — and it was for blowing the whistle. William Binney describing the FBI raid on his house while he was in the shower: [VIDEO] and > Top NSA Watchdog Who Insisted Snowden Should Have Come to Him Receives Termination Notice for Retaliating Against a Whistleblower [LINK]

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marshray · 2013-06 · Reference

An executive of one of the US's largest private social graph repositories ends up working for the largest US spy agency known for maintaining their own "Big Ass Graph (BAG)" for many years longer* and it's "just a coincidence"?! Let me guess - NSA couldn't find anyone else who knew how to manage Hadoop. *Binney - [VIDEO]

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