William Binney, a former NSA codebreaker who left the Agency in order to be able to talk about its blunders and abuses of power, warns that “the ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control” through constant surveillance and intrusion.
“The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control”
Antony Loewenstein, The Guardian, July 11, 2014
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/11/the-ultimate-goal-of-the-nsa-is-total-population-control
American law-enforcement agencies appear to be unduly suspicious of Muslims, regardless of their politics.
“Meet the Muslim-American leaders the FBI and NSA have been spying on”
Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept, July 9, 2014
►https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/07/09/under-surveillance
Most of the people whose privacy the National Security Agency is violating are not the intended targets of surveillance.
“In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are”
Barton Gellman, Julie Tate, and Ashkan Soltani, The Washington Post, July 5, 2014
►http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-nsa-intercepted-data-those-not-targeted-far-outnumber-the-foreigners-who-are/2014/07/05/8139adf8-045a-11e4-8572-4b1b969b6322_story.html