Just as an historical footnote, at #cfp2013 today, I verified with Binney that his statement re: Snowden's transition from whistleblower to traitor was in fact a risk assessment of his positioning. (We're listening to him speak over lunch right now.) He is spending all his time evangelizing for NSA privacy accountability (for Americans) now.
I personally agree with him that military intelligence has a mission to spy -- it's a tautology. Our military in the US is too big for its britches, and that's a longer problem. But it's a minimization issue, not elimination. No country will unilaterally eliminate their MI. So please, be mindful with our ex-military, they will not say we do not need a military, or spies; or that the military or MI is inherently evil. You may disagree as a pacifist, but these are our allies in this struggle (final beat on a dead horse I hope). This lunch panel is amazing is pretty amazing. A call to action to citizen action to protect citizens here *and* abroad from Thomas Drake, just amazing, saying it is all too broad and secret. Abdo, Bamford, Binney, Drake, and Andrew Clement moderating -- wish you all were here! We need sunlight! Yrs, Shava
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