tucker's tots take on one of the "experts," one william binney, 30 years technical director for nsa
NSA analyst William Binney explains what They know about you | The Daily Caller
in the course of 5 pages of q&a, the professionally trained mathematician asserts:
data is collected from some 40 to 50 companies, nsa can access the content of any phone call, no digital communications are secure from nsa data collection, no textual materials from email or phone, 500k to one million are targeted---all their textual material is looked at...
the contents of the phone conversation between tamerlan tsarnaev and his wife, for example, were disclosed by going back retroactively and listening in to recorded discussion, which didn't prevent boston...
they're collecting so much data they're dysfunctional, 10 gigabits per second or 1.25 million 1000-character emails per second, so much data they can't move, restricted to "retro analysis..."
for example, this interview with the caller---i'm on nsa's target list so the nsa and/or fbi can go back and listen in on this entire conversation, and since the caller is now part of my community you can assume you can now be listened to too...
unlike snowden i went to the ig, it didn't do any good...
if snowden has access to the system then, yes, he can bring up emails, passwords, credit cards, phone calls...
tremendous amounts of data collection but very little analysis, so the probability of preempting what they're trying to prevent is very low...
snowden's leaks tell the enemy nothing they didn't already know, the people really clued in for the first time are the american public...
that's who they're trying to keep secrets from, the terrorists already know...
it would be very simple to target any group of americans, for example tea party groups, you just take the key point tea party and plug it in the graph and you've got everybody...
is any of this data passed to the irs---that's a question the govt needs to answer...
but when do they tell you the truth, only after they've been exposed, and then they tell you no more than what's been made public...
it is certainly possible hypothetically to target domestic political opponents for snooping...
oversight by congress and the courts is a joke, the intel community throws around technobabble to people who have no idea what it means, it's a rubber stamp, zero fisa requests were denied in the last year...
take it from an expert?