{"id":130092,"date":"2014-07-14T15:23:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T15:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=130092"},"modified":"2014-07-14T18:58:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T18:58:12","slug":"nsa-whistleblower-binney-nsa-recording-80-u-s-phone-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/nsa-whistleblower-binney-nsa-recording-80-u-s-phone-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA Whistleblower Binney: NSA Recording 80% of U.S. Phone Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NSA whistleblower William Binney (shown) has made the startling\u00a0<a style=\"color: #bc0202;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/jul\/11\/the-ultimate-goal-of-the-nsa-is-total-population-control\" target=\"_blank\">claim\u00a0<\/a>that the NSA is recording the audio of at least 80 percent of Americans&#8217; telephone calls. The NSA acknowledged in 2013, after repeated and explicit denials, that it was recording telephone metadata, but it still denies it is keeping the audio of any American&#8217;s phone calls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the US,\u201d Binney to<a style=\"color: #bc0202;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/jul\/11\/the-ultimate-goal-of-the-nsa-is-total-population-control\">l<\/a>d the London\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em>\u00a0July 10. \u201cThis is no accident and allows the US to view all communication coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US. The NSA lies about what it stores.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_130093\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130093\" style=\"width: 380px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130093\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/75395202a3225621a8c5a688921fb283_M.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of William Benney: AP Images\" width=\"380\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/75395202a3225621a8c5a688921fb283_M.jpg 380w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/75395202a3225621a8c5a688921fb283_M-75x40.jpg 75w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/75395202a3225621a8c5a688921fb283_M-150x79.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/75395202a3225621a8c5a688921fb283_M-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of William Benney: AP Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>William Binney can perhaps be called the \u201clegal Edward Snowden,\u201d as the 32-year veteran of the NSA did not take NSA documents or reveal classified information in his whistleblowing.\u00a0And while some have criticized NSA whistleblower Snowden for not following established legal channels, Binney&#8217;s character remains unimpeached. Binney has particular credibility because he was the author of the software used to conduct the domestic surveillance, which he had created to spy on foreign governments and terrorist threats. Binney explained in a\u00a0<a style=\"color: #bc0202;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=590cy1biewc\" target=\"_blank\">2012 documentary short film<\/a>\u00a0that:<\/p>\n<p><em>After 9\/11 they took one of the programs I had done \u2013 the back end of it \u2013 and started to use it to spy on everybody in this country. That was a program they created called STELLAR WIND. That was separate and compartmented from the regular activity that was ongoing because it was doing domestic spying.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/usnews\/crime\/item\/18681-nsa-whistleblower-binney-nsa-recording-80-of-u-s-phone-calls\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSA whistleblower William Binney (shown) has made the startling\u00a0claim\u00a0that the NSA is recording the audio of at least 80 percent of Americans&#8217; telephone calls. The NSA acknowledged in 2013, after repeated and explicit denials, that it was recording telephone metadata, but it still denies it is keeping the audio of any American&#8217;s phone calls. \u201cAt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1614,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-130092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-surveillance-big-brother","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}