CIA screws up again, Underwear Bomber II. TSA follow the money. More Secrets on Growing State Surveillance: Exclusive Part 2 with NSA Whistleblower, Targeted Hacker. Whistleblower: The NSA is Lying–U.S. Government Has Copies of Most of Your Emails. Exclusive: National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance. This is a rush transcript.
Copy may not be in its final form. JUAN GONZALEZ: Today we bring you a Democracy Now! Special on the growing domestic surveillance state and the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to spy on dissident journalists and activists. In a national broadcast exclusive, we’re joined by National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney. He was a key source for James Bamford’s recent [exposé] in Wired Magazine about the NSA—how the NSA is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah.
Binney served in the NSA for over 30 years, including a time as director of the NSA’s World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group. AMY GOODMAN: We’re also joined by two individuals who have been frequent targets of government surveillance: Laura Poitras, the Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, and Jacob Appelbaum, a computer security researcher who has volunteered with WikiLeaks. WILLIAM BINNEY: Almost four. AMY GOODMAN: Almost four decades. Exposed: Inside the NSA’s Largest and Most Expansive Secret Domestic Spy Center in Bluffdale, Utah. This is a rush transcript.
Copy may not be in its final form. NERMEEN SHAIKH: A new exposé in Wired Magazine has revealed new details about how the National Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part of a secret NSA surveillance program codenamed "Stellar Wind. " According to investigative reporter James Bamford, the NSA has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls, whether they originate within the country or overseas.
The Utah spy center will contain near-bottomless databases to store all forms of communication collected by the agency. This includes the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases and other digital "pocket litter. " James Bamford joins us now from London, England. JAMES BAMFORD: I’ll give it a try. Attorney in Wiretapping Case Says Obama Admin as Bad or Worse than Bush on State Secrets. We turn now to a major rebuke of the Bush administration spy program and what it could mean for state secrecy under the Obama White House.
Last week a federal judge ruled the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program was illegal. Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the federal district court in San Francisco ruled the government illegally intercepted the phone calls of an Oregon-based Islamic charity called Al-Haramain in 2004. Both the Bush and Obama administrations had tried to dismiss the suit, claiming a trial could result in the release of state secrets. But Judge Walker rejected the state secrets argument, saying it presented, quote, "obvious potential for governmental abuse and overreaching. " The ruling marks the strongest legal repudiation to date of the Bush administration spy program since it was first publicly revealed in 2005.
Yesterday I spoke to one of the attorneys representing the Islamic charity. Can you tell us exactly what this document said? I can’t. CNN: Anonymous Wants All Out Revolution In US! #OWS. Conspiracy Site Disclose.TV Seized By Internet Terrorism Taskforce. April 15th, 2012 (HigginsBlog) – The popular internet conspiracy forum and website Disclose.TV has apparently been seized by the US Internet Security Terrorism Task Force according to a notice on the site.
A notice on the Disclose.TV website says the site has been seized after the U.S. government obtained a warrant from Maryland to seize the domain, apparently for terrorism related activities. The site often links to and discusses articles here and on other popular alternative media websites. Disclose TV Conspiracy Forum Seized By Terrorism Task Force Specifics are unknown at this point and it is entirely possible that this is a hoax as the notice says the domain was seized after the U.S.