William Binney Biography

William Binney is a former intelligence officer with the American National Security Agency. In 2001, He has become a whistleblower after resigning from the NSA. After finishing his degree in mathematics from Pennsylvania State University, Binney made the calculated choice to volunteer for the Army. Binney served withinside the Army Security Agency, running on evaluation and code-breaking, from 1965 to 1969. Binney joined the NSA in 1970 and rose via the NSA ranks fast to the placement of Technical Leader for Intelligence. Binney and his colleagues had produced a system known as ThinThread. The in-residence system turned into established to collect “actionable intelligence.” But in preference to the use of ThinThread, the NSA signed a multi-billion greenback settlement for a system known as Trailblazer. Trailblazer turned into “the most important failure in NSA history” and was canceled in 2006. After resigning in 2001, Binney and his colleague J. Kirk Wiebe blew the whistle on Trailblazer’s high-priced failings. Instead of going to the press, Binney and Wiebe used the right channels to tell the American Congress and the Department of Defense approximately what happened. After retiring from the NSA, he founded, collectively with fellow NSA whistleblower Wiebe, Entity Mapping, LLC, a personal intelligence organization to market their evaluation program to authorities. Entity Mapping operated from 2001 to 2007. Binney has made many high-profile appearances wherein he stocks his NSA experiences. Binney testified withinside the German Government’s NSA inquiry, describing his former agency as wanting "overall statistics control" over citizens. Binney additionally featured withinside the Oscar-triumphing documentary Citizenfour and turned into the concern of the 2015 documentary A Good American.

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