Technologie & Innovatie
The National Security Agency whistleblowers will give key disclosures. They openly challenged the mismanagement of the Trailblazer bulk data collection program which illegally spied on people around the world. That program not only ended in total failure, but cost taxpayers billions of dollars. As Technical Director, Binney developed a revolutionary information processing system called ThinThread that, arguably, could have detected and prevented the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but NSA officials ignored the program in favor of Trailblazers.
Concerned over national security, Binney and Wiebe blew the whistle on the mismanagement over Trailblazer, using internal channels to share their concerns with Congress and the Department of Defense Inspector General (DoD IG). Despite their efforts, no one was held accountable at NSA for one of the worst intelligence failures in history. Little did they know at the time, Binney and Wiebe would face harsh retaliation from NSA for their efforts to make the truth known
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