Binney, who resigned from his job at the NSA in , first came into the public eye during the case of Thomas Drake, another former NSA official, who was prosecuted for revealing much of the same information to a Baltimore Sun reporter. From the Washington Post in Drake was initially charged in relation to leaking classified information and a violation of the Espionage Act, but prosecutors ultimately dropped all the charges but one, and Drake plead guilty to a misdemeanor of exceeding authorized use of a computer.
Binney has continued to speak publicly about the programs since then, having appeared with media outlets on both political extremes, including Glenn Beck and Democracy Now. This is something the KGB, the Stasi, or the Gestapo would have loved to have had about their populations.
And we the people may have absolutely nothing to say about it. The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong. This most recent leak of classified intelligence documents has many comparing Snowden to Bradley Manning , the Army private who leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks in But Snowden, while a supporter of Manning, says his own case is different.
Transparency is. There are cyber techs giving away personal info that any nation can use to hack our lives. Where is congress in all this? Are they the reps just inventing new forms of government that gets them reelected? Where is Peter king in all this? The memo obtained by CBS News cited eight specific examples. That was 12 years ago, when he was Should it say ? Over time this would help to show patterns of movement, etc. The man sounds like an idiot. It got misused!
Comey then threatened to resign—with Ashcroft, FBI director Robert Mueller, and other top officials reportedly ready to join him. Bush ultimately backed down, and the troublesome program was briefly suspended until it could be renewed under a different legal authority. More recently, via reporting in The Washington Post and a classified NSA report leaked by The Guardian , we learned that the controversy specifically involved Internet—not telephone—metadata.
After Yoo returned to academia in , however, his successors grew uncomfortable with his leaps of legal logic and stopped relying on his questionable opinions on a broad range of counterterrorism issues. He and his colleagues seem to have accepted this general line of reasoning when it came to warrantless wiretapping. The presidential authorization to intercept telephone and Internet content as opposed to metadata was at least somewhat limited.
Though no court oversight was required, the NSA had to believe that the target of its taps was in Afghanistan or linked to terrorism. The point of looking at so much metadata is, as intelligence officials like to say, to gather a haystack so you can search for needles.
Clearly, though, it was harder to rely on the AUMF as the authority for that collection. And the NSA may have had to analyze both domestic and foreign Internet traffic in many cases just to sort out which was which. The intelligence community also was able to obtain from the U.
There were internal disputes within the U. Justice Department about the legality of the program, because data is collected for large numbers of people, not just the subjects of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA warrants. From a report by the inspectors general of six US intelligence agencies that was declassified in September , it became clear that President Bush had originally authorized the collection of telephone and e-mail metadata only if one end of the communications was foreign or when there was a link to terrorism.
But in , the Justice Department found out that the NSA was apparently also collecting the metadata of purely domestic communications, after which President Bush declared that NSA had always been allowed to do so, but that analysts were only allowed to look at metadata related to terrorism.
With this revised formulation, Bush reauthorized the program on March 11, The accompanying article addressed the release of a newly declassified version of the May memo.
See also. Archived from the original on December 15, Gellman, Barton June 16, The Washington Post. Binney, William.
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