People really need to listen to William Binney, whistleblower and former NSA crypto-mathematician who served in the agency for decades. He helped develop a system that is now being turned upon the American people.

“They are violating the entire foundation of this country… And under Executive Order 13526 Section 1.7, you cannot classify information just to cover up a crime. Which this is. Signed by both Presidents Obama and Bush.”

Privacy in the virtual world, the Petraeus affair, and whistleblowers’ odds in fight against the authorities are among the topics discussed in this short interview.

As Senator Frank Church, who led the committee investigating the illegal surveillance activity engaged by the government against Americans, remarked…

The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn‚t matter. There would be no place to hide. [If a dictator ever took over, the NSA could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.

Church had found that every single president, whether Democratic or Republican, had systematically abused eavesdropping powers. And he warned about the National Security Agency which was at the heart of this abuse.

As Binney points out, if any of this comes into the Supreme Court and they rule it unconstitutional [which in an honest society it would be deemed to be on the face of it], then the entire house of cards that the government has created to maintain this modern Stasi-style mass surveillance state would come crashing down.