NSA Whistleblower Backs Trump Up on Wiretap Claims
Bill Binney, who resigned from NSA in 2001, did not elaborate on President Obama’s specific role in surveilling Trump.
By Curt Mills, Staff Writer | March 7, 2017
President Donald Trump is "absolutely right"
to claim he was wiretapped and monitored, a former NSA official claimed
Monday, adding that the administration risks falling victim to further
leaks if it continues to run afoul of the intelligence community.
"I think the president is absolutely right. His phone
calls, everything he did electronically, was being monitored," Bill
Binney, a 36-year veteran of the National Security Agency
who resigned in protest from the organization in 2001, told Fox
Business on Monday. Everyone's conversations are being monitored and
stored, Binney said.
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Binney resigned from NSA shortly after the U.S. approach to intelligence changed
following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. He "became a whistleblower
after discovering that elements of a data-monitoring program he had
helped develop -- nicknamed ThinThread -- were being used to spy on
Americans," PBS reported.
On Monday he came to the defense of the president, whose
allegations on social media over the weekend that outgoing President
Barack Obama tapped his phones during the 2016 campaign have rankled
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