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At least 80 percent of all audio calls are gathered and stored by the NSA, whistleblower William Binney has revealed. The former code-breaker says the spy agency's ultimate aim is no less than total population control.
"At least 80 percent of fiber-optic cables globally go via the US", Binney said. "This is no accident and allows the US to view all communication coming in. At least 80 percent of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US. The NSA lies about what it stores."
Binney has no evidence to substantiate his claims as he did not take any documents with him when he left the NSA. However, he insists the organization is untruthful about its intelligence gathering practices and their ultimate aim. He says that recent Supreme Court decisions have led him to believe the NSA won't stop until it has complete control over the population.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday July 13 2014, @07:42PM
Once upon a time Andreotti, high ranked Italian politician, was accused of mafia links. Then somebody testified that he had kissed the top mafia don of the moment (which has a social, not sexual meaning). Then the story was proven false and Andreotti defenders could play the "victim of conspiracy" card. Not that it worked flawlessly in the end.
So this could be a disinfo operation.
OTOH it seems a bit too weak of an accusation. Intelligence agencies are the perfect front for sufficiently powerful people, there must be heaps of dirt among justified self-defense ops. We could have obtained more interesting stuff.
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