Comment by timschmidt
2 days ago
"Binney was the agency official responsible for automating much of the NSA’s worldwide monitoring networks."
2 days ago
"Binney was the agency official responsible for automating much of the NSA’s worldwide monitoring networks."
That doesn't in any way contradict what I said. Both technology and the law changed significantly since he was a middle manager in the NSA.
It is, in fact, a direct contradiction of what you've said. There is no independently verifiable proof that NSA mass surveillance has stopped or even slowed. And a great deal of evidence to the contrary. EFF maintains a lovely list of primary sources: https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/nsadocs#main-content
> There is no independently verifiable proof that NSA mass surveillance has stopped or even slowed
Mass surveillance outside the U.S. is not illegal. There is no reason for that to have slowed. The documents showed no mass "surveillance" inside the U.S. The only mass collection was phone metadata collection, which wasn't used for surveilling anybody, only to spit out possible associates of specific people under surveillance.
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