...and thanks for posting this. It's a better interview than anyone has gotten here in the U.S.

Binney interview there on the 7th. I won't miss that.

This really is a must read.

I didn't try to analyze it, but it's not hard to do. I thought the interviewer did a good job.

I did notice the part about "pure executive power". That pretty much nails whom to bring to trial.

I’m interested in surveillance and whether there really is effective mass surveillance taking place. It is said that you helped to develop how it could be done but then resigned from the National Security Agency (the NSA) when they started to apply collecting data on Americans. So could we begin with an introduction?

I worked in the Army Security Agency during the Vietnam War, from 1965 to 70 then joined the NSA. I started out doing traffic analysis for them. This evolved into data system analysis and cryptography systems and code analysis and I became the NSA technical director in mid ’97 running an operations centre with about 6,000 analysts doing reporting and analysis for NSA.

Does that involve breaking encryption?

It’s more like designing systems to manage or solve problems. I had to know the technologies involved and the systems involved. I got away from breaking systems to designing systems to defining the issues to solve. Part of that, I guess, was leveraging all the background I had in cryptology and codes and data systems.

http://opendemocracy.net/william-binney-anthony-barnett/%E2%80%9Cwe-had-to-wait-for-snowden-for-proof%E2%80%9D-exchange-with-william-binney