William Binney Explains Snowden Documents

Retired NSA Technical Director Explains Snowden Docs

Binney also mentions how the current NSA mass surveillance regime differs from aspects of an earlier less expensive program, called THINTHREAD, which both he and the former NSA senior computer scientist, Edward Loomis, invented.

As Tim Shorrock has already reported, the back-end of THINTHREAD was used by the NSA in a later program called STELLARWIND (thereby forgoing front end privacy protections both Binney and Loomis built into their earlier, less expensive system). NSA then "illegally directed" STELLARWIND en masse sans privacy protections on Americans and the rest of the world.

The presentation began with a cursory display of the first three slides. Binney then explores the remaining slides in greater depth. The presentation contains Binney's own slides and published documents released to journalists by Snowden.

http://www.alexaobrien.com/secondsight/wb/binney.html