Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
William Binney was the Technical Director of America’s National Security Agency (the NSA) and resigned immediately after 9/11. Previously, during the Vietnam War from 1965 – 1970, he worked in the Army Security Agency. At the NSA, he worked on traffic analysis, data system analysis and cryptography systems and code analysis and became Technical Director in mid-1997, when he ran an operations centre with around 6,000 analysts.
William Binney and Kirk Wiebe worked at the NSA for decades, before blowing the whistle on mass surveillance. They...
The NSA preferred a much more expensive system of bulk collection of foreign data. That was a fatal choice as it...