Vet/Republican/NSA whistleblower speaks out

This is the kind of stuff that should be driving conservatives and militia types nuts, not Obama's non-existent restrictions on gun owners.

But so far, according to the mainstream, anything done in the name of fighting Islamic terrorism is permissible.  

[The NSA's 'Stellar Wind' program, based in Utah] is being designed to store huge amounts of accessible web information – such as social media updates – but also information in the "deep web" behind passwords and other firewalls that keep it away from the public.

As an example of Stellar Wind's power, Binney believes it is hoovering up virtually every email sent by every American and perhaps a good deal of the people of the rest of the world, too.

US data whistleblower: 'It's a violation of everybody's constitutional rights'

Former National Security Agency official Bill Binney says US is illegally collecting huge amounts of data on his fellow citizens

By Paul Harris

September 15, 2012 | Guardian

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/sep/15/data-whistleblower-constitutional-rights?commentpage=last#end-of-comments