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Washington Examiner
January 23, 2018
Among those concerned is former NSA senior executive Thomas Drake, who was prosecuted unsuccessfully under the Espionage Act after the Baltimore Sun reported on ineffective and expensive post-9/11 NSA programs, including the abandoned $1.2 billion Trailblazer surveillance program, which wasÃÂ ...
Digital Journal
January 19, 2018
WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESSWIRE / January 19, 2018 / Steven Stalinsky, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) and terrorism expert, has released his debut book, AMERICAN TRAITOR: The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda's U.S.-Born Leader Adam Gadahn.
Technical.ly Baltimore
January 11, 2018
This school year, five students from Carver VoTech High School are interning at the National Security Agency. It marks the first time that Baltimore city high school students are participating in the NSA's High School Work Study program, which sets them up to work for half a day at the Fort Meade–basedÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
January 2, 2018
William Binney, a former high-level National Security Agency intelligence official who, after his 2001 retirement, blew the whistle on the extraordinary breadth of NSA surveillance programs ... That lobby was started in 1989 for a separate program called Trailblazer, which failed miserably in 2005-2006.
Washington Examiner
December 29, 2017
That may reflect the general view of official Washington about Mr. Trump," said Robert Deitz, general counsel of the National Security Agency from 1998 ... a Baltimore Sun journalist reporting on ineffective and expensive NSA programs, including the abandoned $1.2 billion Trailblazer surveillance program,ÃÂ ...
Cato Institute (blog)
December 8, 2017
I've had lots of requests for a non-Scribd link to the 2004 DoD IG report on the THINTHREAD and TRAILBLAZER programs I mentioned in my JustSecurity.org ... I should point out that at the end of the excellent documentary on this topic, A Good American, the film's creators noted that Hayden, NSA's SignalÃÂ ...
Newsweek
December 8, 2017
As Loomis noted in his own account of the THINTHREAD-TRAILBLAZER saga, within days after the 9/11 attacks, NSA management ordered key components of THINTHREAD—the system Hayden had rejected—to be integrated (without the inclusion of 4th Amendment compliance software) into what wouldÃÂ ...
Cato Institute (blog)
December 7, 2017
As Loomis noted in his own account of the THINTHREAD-TRAILBLAZER saga, within days after the 9/11 attacks, NSA management ordered key components of THINTHREAD—the system Hayden had rejected—to be integrated (without the inclusion of 4th Amendment compliance software) into what wouldÃÂ ...
The Intercept
November 7, 2017
Pompeo met on October 24 with William Binney, a former National Security Agency official-turned-whistleblower who co-authored an analysis published .... But Binney was outraged when the NSA's leaders went instead with a more expensive alternative called Trailblazer, offered by an outside contractor.
The American Conservative
August 2, 2017
As the Project on Government Oversight first reported in December 2016, a three-member interagency Inspector General External Review Panel concluded in May 2016 that the then-Inspector General of the National Security Agency (NSA), George Ellard, had, according to POGO, “himself had previouslyÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
June 20, 2017
The president nominates Robert Storch, three years after Congress voted to require Senate confirmation for NSA inspectors general. ... President Donald Trump nominated Robert Storch on Monday to be the National Security Agency's first independent internal watchdog -- nearly three years after CongressÃÂ ...
ACLU (blog)
May 23, 2017
In a critical victory for privacy and the rule of law, a federal court of appeals ruled unanimously today that an ACLU challenge to NSA internet surveillance, Wikimedia v. NSA, can go forward. As the court explained, Wikimedia, the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, persuasively argued that its communications areÃÂ ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
May 6, 2017
The former senior executive of the National Security Agency spoke at the college's annual Mayday Peace Conference last week as part of his second career: ... In 2006, he contacted a reporter at the Baltimore Sun, which then published a series of stories about Trailblazer, an NSA program it described asÃÂ ...
The Guardian
April 28, 2017
Amid an unexpected fight over US surveillance powers from congressional Republicans, the National Security Agency has agreed to curb its highly controversial collection of Americans' emails that discuss foreign intelligence targets, although how comprehensive that stoppage is remains unclear.
The Intercept
February 10, 2017
In 2010, Thomas Drake, a former senior employee at the National Security Agency, was charged with espionage for speaking to a reporter from the ... unique opportunity to comb through still-classified documents that outline the history of two competing NSA programs known as ThinThread and Trailblazer.
NYU Washington Square News
February 1, 2017
Following Edward Snowden's exposure of the National Security Agency's global and domestic surveillance programs, people have begun to pose more questions about ... To get the funding, all the NSA had to do was hide both Trailblazer's ineffectiveness and ThinThread's ability to prevent 9/11. To do soÃÂ ...
The Intercept
November 7, 2017
William Binney, former National Security Agency intelligence .... By doing so, Binney angered top NSA officials who were pushing Trailblazer.
Computable
November 6, 2017
Het klinkt vreemd uit de mond van voormalige NSA-topanalisten die ... toen was specifiek voor het omstreden Trailblazer-project van de ...
Law360
November 6, 2017
... judge, said Judge Taylor was a trailblazer and an all-around beautiful person. ... American Civil Liberties Union v. the National Security Agency, which was one ... 17, 2006, opinion that the NSA's activity violated the Foreign ...
U.S. News & World Report
June 20, 2017
President Donald Trump nominated Robert Storch on Monday to be the National Security Agency's first independent internal watchdog ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
May 6, 2017
The former senior executive of the National Security Agency spoke at the ... which then published a series of stories about Trailblazer, an NSAÂ ...
The Intercept
February 10, 2017
... former senior employee at the National Security Agency, was charged with espionage ... Ultimately, however, the NSA went with Trailblazer.
Boing Boing
February 3, 2017
Bill Binney resigned from the NSA in October 2001, after 30 years with ... of a multibillion-dollar boondoggle called Trailblazer, which collapsed ...
NYU Washington Square News
February 1, 2017
... of the National Security Agency's global and domestic surveillance ... To get the funding, all the NSA had to do was hide both Trailblazer's ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
August 4, 2017
Drake was a National Security Agency executive before he was ... information about TrailBlazer, one of several surveillance programs used by the agency. ... Snowden is the notorious NSA contractor who leaked information toÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
June 20, 2017
President Donald Trump nominated Robert Storch on Monday to be the National Security Agency's first independent internal watchdogÃÂ ...
CNBC
June 15, 2017
Putin compares former FBI Director Comey to NSA leaker Snowden, ... from the National Security Agency in 2013 without any authorization.
Fortune
June 6, 2017
Because The Intercept published scanned images of the top secret National Security Agency document, rather than posting a transcription,ÃÂ ...
ACLU (blog)
May 23, 2017
In a critical victory for privacy and the rule of law, a federal court of appeals ruled unanimously today that an ACLU challenge to NSA internetÃÂ ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
May 6, 2017
The former senior executive of the National Security Agency spoke at the ... which then published a series of stories about Trailblazer, an NSAÃÂ ...
Pirate Times
February 21, 2017
The Privacy Shield program gives these NSA contractors the ability to transfer personal ... In 2000, the NSA launched the Trailblazer project.
The Intercept
February 10, 2017
... employee at the National Security Agency, was charged with espionage for speaking to ... Ultimately, however, the NSA went with Trailblazer.
Variety
February 1, 2017
A former NSA official argues that his program might have prevented ... Trailblazer, because Hayden and NSA bigwig Sam Visner had ties to theÃÂ ...
Just Security
March 2, 2017
The film tells the tale of a small group of National Security Agency employees who, prior to 9/11 developed a revolutionary intelligence collection and analysis capability, code-named THINTHREAD.
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
March 1, 2017
In recent years, JFK was "Lancer," Reagan was "Rawhide," Bush-One "Timberwolf," Clinton "Eagle," Bush-Two "Trailblazer," Obama "Renegade," etc. Pretty action-packed and all-American, most of them. So it was a surprise when the Trump White ... We have ...
Pirate Times
February 21, 2017
The following NSA contractors have joined the Privacy Shield program: BAE Systems, Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon.
Boing Boing
February 3, 2017
Binney and his fellow whistleblowers tell the story of how General Michael Hayden, then head of the NSA, sidelined their proposals in favor of a multibillion-dollar boondoggle called Trailblazer, which collapsed without ever shipping -- and how Hayden ...
Salon
February 3, 2017
When Bill Binney, former NSA analyst and head of the anti-terror ThinThread metadata program sits in front of you and says he is not afraid of the government, you have to admire him.
New York Times
February 2, 2017
That's according to William E. Binney, a former technical director at the National Security Agency and the principal subject of this film.
NYU Washington Square News
February 1, 2017
Following Edward Snowden's exposure of the National Security Agency's global and domestic surveillance programs, people have begun to pose more questions about government agencies' secrecy and deceptive practices.
Modern Diplomacy
January 4, 2017
He blew the whistle on the NSA's Trailblazer Project that he felt was a violation of the Fourth Amendment and other laws and regulations.
Car Chat
December 13, 2016
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December 13, 2016
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Car Chat
December 12, 2016
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Car Chat
December 11, 2016
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Foreign Policy (blog)
November 16, 2016
Germans felt the world's policeman had become a loose cannon and saw its economy as a trailblazer for casino capitalism.
The Intercept
October 27, 2016
But just months before the 9/11 attacks, then-NSA Director Michael Hayden rejected ThinThread in favor of an untested, expensive alternative called Trailblazer, offered by a Washington, D.C.-based defense contractor. It became a pricey boondoggle thatÃÂ ...
ComputerWeekly.com
October 11, 2016
The NSA's response to the 9/11 revelations was to shelve ThinThread in favour of a much more expensive program, TrailBlazer. After NSA director Michael Hayden was appointed in 1999, Binney had been asked how he could use $1.2bn to revamp hisÃÂ ...
ComputerWeekly.com
October 11, 2016
The NSA's response to the 9/11 revelations was to shelve ThinThread in favour of a much more expensive program, TrailBlazer. After NSA director Michael Hayden was appointed in 1999, Binney had been asked how he could use $1.2bn to revamp hisÃÂ ...
Yahoo Music
October 10, 2016
Earlier this year she co-starred in the film "Snowden" as Lindsay Mills, girlfriend of the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked details about the U.S. government's massive surveillance programs and was granted asylum in Russia after ...
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