No NSA director did as much damage to the agency as Gen. Michael V. Hayden. William Binney More Quotes by William Binney More Quotes From William Binney The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control William Binney nsapopulationgoal FBI wants to know everything about you, and you're not supposed to know anything about them. William Binney fbiknowswant The spooks are all cowards. Sunlight is the solution to these things. William Binney sunlightsolutionscoward The NSA's vision statement is: keep the problem going so the money keeps flowing. William Binney nsavisionproblem Data is not intelligence. William Binney data Now what [Mueller] is talking about is going into the NSA database, which is shown of course in the [Edward] Snowden material released, which shows a direct access into the NSA database by the FBI and the CIA, so that means that NSA and a number of agencies in the U.S. government also have those [Clinton] emails. William Binney politics I call people who are covering up NSA crimes traitors. William Binney traitorswhouppeople The problem with a group is, the more people you add, the lower the average IQ. William Binney groupyouproblempeople If you're in government, that's one of the one things you have to do is to always avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest. William Binney youconflictgovernmentappearance I think the FISA court's basically totally irrelevant. William Binney i-thinkthinkirrelevantcourt We're not getting a good return on investment on all that money we're pumping into the intelligence community. One of the first things I would suggest is that if there's an attack and they fail to stop it or to alert us before it happens, that we ought to start cutting their budget, and for every attack they should lose ten percent of their budget. William Binney goodintelligencecommunitymoney As I have said in the past, revealing specific targets or successes of U.S. intelligence activities is not in the public interest. William Binney in-the-pastintelligencesaidpast At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the U.S. This is no accident and allows the U.S. to view all communication coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the U.S. The NSA lies about what it stores. William Binney accidentviewgocommunication The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control, but I'm a little optimistic with some recent Supreme Court decisions, such as law enforcement mostly now needing a warrant before searching a smartphone. William Binney decisionscontrolsomelaw You don't hear anybody talking about what FBI is doing with the NSA collected data. That's because they're doing it in secret. I mean, they're also using it to convict people of crimes, and that's what they're doing - they're looking at it for criminal activity. William Binney lookingdoingyoupeople Reagan used to say that 'we're a country with a government.' Well, now we're a government with a country, and we're making everybody else that way, too. William Binney saygovernmentcountryway You've got the NSA doing all this collecting of material on all of its citizens - that's what the SS, the Gestapo, the Stasi, the KGB, and the NKVD did. William Binney gotdoingyoucitizens Trailblazer was the NSA's attempt to catch up with the digital age. The problem is, Trailblazer didn't do anything. As far as I know, it didn't produce anything for roughly a little over $4 billion. William Binney knowdigitalproblemage When I left NSA, it was with an understanding that you can never underestimate the power of large numbers of stupid people. William Binney youpowerstupidpeople
