CONGRESS KNEW BEFORE SNOWDEN TOLD ALL
After
9/11, Binney and a small team created a computer program constantly
scanning data from cell phones and emails aimed at finding terrorist
activity.
“The idea was how
can you look into terrabytes of data going by every minute and see
what’s important in that data that you need to pull out to look at and
analyze to figure out intentions, capabilities of potential enemies in
the world,” he said.
But Binney soon became concerned that the government was spying on average Americans.
“The
data that was being taken in was all about United States citizens,” he
said. “They’re destroying our democracy is what they’re doing.”
Controversy
about the tracking program went public earlier this year when another
Maryland man, Edward Snowden, leaked classified documents. However, WJZ
has learned Congress may have had a warning about this years ago.
That’s when Binney says he first raised concerns his program had been
turned against Americans.
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