"Original" NSA Whistleblower Says Home Raid Was Retribution
"We were a clear demonstration that official channels didn't work," said William Binney, one of a trio of National Security Agency employees who tired to "blow the whistle" on the NSA's domestic surveillance activities more than a decade before Edward Snowden delivered classified documents from the agency's files to The Guardian. Binney, now retired, resigned from the NSA in 2001. A year later he and two of his former colleagues asked Congress and the Department of Defense for an investigation of the agency for wasting money and violating privacy rights with a massive data collection program called "Trailblazer," the successor to an earlier program dubbed "Stellar Wind." Binney believes that's the reason why the FBI five years later staged an armed raid of his home.
"Stellar Wind was the basic reason I left the NSA in 2001," Binney said in a recent interview with Nick Gillespie of Reason magazine....
