USA: Ex-NSA-Angesteller erzählt vom Überwachungsstaat

Bei DemocracyNow findet sich ein Videointerview mit dem ehemaligen NSA-Angestellten William Binney, der nach 30 Jahren dem US-Geheimdienst den Rücken kehrte und jetzt als Insider und Whistleblower vor einem Überwachungsstaat mit orwellschen Ausmaßen warnt: Exclusive: National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance.

In his first television interview since he resigned from the National Security Agency over its domestic surveillance program, William Binney discusses the NSA’s massive power to spy on Americans and why the FBI raided his home after he became a whistleblower. Binney was a key source for investigative journalist James Bamford’s recent exposé in Wired Magazine about how the NSA is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah. The Utah spy center will contain near-bottomless databases to store all forms of communication collected by the agency, including private emails, cell phone calls, Google searches and other personal data.