A police officer stands next to former US National Security Agency, NSA, employee William Binney, center, as Binney waits for his questioning by the German parliamentary NSA investigation committee in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, July 3, 2014. The committee investigates the NSA surveillance activities, that also included the tapping of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
A police officer stands next to former US National Security Agency, NSA, employee William Binney, center, as Binney waits for his questioning by the German parliamentary NSA investigation committee in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, July 3, 2014. The committee investigates the NSA surveillance activities, that also included the tapping of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

In this video acTVism Munich interviews William Binney to talk about his experience at the National Security Agency (NSA) where worked for circa 36 years and how he uncovered fraud, crime and corruption at the agency. Other issues that are discussed in detail include the role & significance of whistleblowers in society, scope & capacity of the US intelligence state and solutions that the government as well as the individual can employ to reform the NSA.

 

Biography of William Binney:

William Binney is a former highly placed intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency (NSA) turned whistleblower who resigned on October 31, 2001, after more than 30 years with the agency. He was a high-profile critic of his former employers during the George W. Bush administration. Binney continues to speak out during Barack Obama‘s presidency about the NSA’s data collection policies, and continues interviews in the media regarding his experiences and his views on communication intercepts by governmental agencies of American citizens. In a legal case, Binney has testified in an affidavit that the NSA is in deliberate violation of the U.S. Constitution.

Watch the exclusive Interview with former NSA-Technical Director: William Binney:

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