TheNsaDomesticSpyingProgram changetheworld@ronaldmulero.com 2012-08-25 19:52:38 William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency turned whistle-blower, explains how the program he created for foreign intelligence gathering was turned inward on the United States of America. He resigned over this in 2001 and began speaking out publicly in the last year. He is among a group of N.S.A. whistle-blowers, including Thomas A. Drake, who have each risked everything--their freedom, livelihoods and personal relationships--to warn Americans about the dangers of N.S.A. domestic spying. The 2008 amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which oversees the N.S.A. activities, are up for renewal in December 2012. Two members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Udall of Colorado, both Democrats, are trying to revise the amendments to insure greater privacy protections. They have been warning about "secret interpretations" of laws and backdoor "loopholes" that allow the government to collect our private communications. Thirteen senators have signed a letter expressing concern about a "loophole" in the law that permits the collection of United States data. The A.C.L.U. and other groups have also challenged the constitutionality of the law, and the Supreme Court will hear arguments in that case on Oct. 29, 2012. This video is adapted from a work in progress to be released in 2013 by Laura Poitras. http://www.praxisfilms.org/about/laura-poitras http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/the-national-security-agencys-domestic-spying-program.html NSA;Stellar Wind;data mining;ECHELON;FISA;surveillance;spying;domestic;espionage;wiretapping;social networks;Facebook;Twitter;Fourth Amendment Laura Poitras http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ movies opensource_movies 2012 2012 The New York Times sound color 2012-08-25 20:08:54 [curator]malware@archive.org[/curator][date]20140323113634[/date][comment]checked for malware[/comment] ia903906_21 community