Embarrassment By People In Government Who
Have Been Caught Breaking the Law – Not National Security – Is the
Reason Politicians and Intelligence Agencies Are Going After
Whistleblower
The former head of the National Security Agency’s global digital data
gathering program – William Binney – confirms what Glenn Greenwald and
other civil libertarians say: the disclosure of widespread spying on
Americans doesn’t help terrorists or otherwise hurt national security,
but is simply an embarrassment to people in government who have been
caught breaking the law:
The terrorists have already known that we’ve been doing
this for years, so there’s no surprise there. They’re not going to
change the way they operate just because it comes out in the U.S. press.
I mean, the point is, they already knew it, and they were operating the
way they would operate anyway. So, the point is that they’re—we’re
not—the government here is not trying to protect it from the terrorists;
it’s trying to protect it, that knowledge of that program, from the
citizens of the United States. http://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/10/on_a_slippery_slope_to_a
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