NSA Whistleblower Says The Feds Are Gathering Data On Nearly Every US Citizen

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Michael Kelley, Jul. 17, 2012, 6:41 PM

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The U.S. government has been collecting data on nearly every U.S. citizen and assembling webs of their relationships, National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney told the Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) conference last week.

Binney worked for the Defense Department's foreign signals intelligence agency for 32 years before resigning in late 2001 because he "could not stay after the NSA began purposefully violating the Constitution," according to a statement he made in court records.

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