NSA WHISTLEBLOWER: The Feds Can Make Anyone Look Suspicious

A common reaction to the news that $4 of American citizens: As long as if I'm not doing anything illegal, what's the big deal?

Whistleblower Edward Snowden, 29-year old employee of Booz Allen, provided an answer to that question during $4 (emphasis ours):

"It's getting to the point where you don't have to have done anything wrong. You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody - even by a wrong call - and then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision decision you've even made, ever friend you've discussed something with, and attack you on that basis to sort of derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer."

Some people ($4) are skeptical about Snowden's stunning claims, but it should be noted that the alleged ability of the NSA to collect Internet traffic and crunch it to profile any American has been corroborated by several other reporters and whistleblowers.

First of all, in April 2012 Wired's James Bamford - author of the book "$4" - reported how the U.S. government $4.

AT&T engineer Mark Klein $4, through which the NSA actively "vacuumed up Internet and phone-call data from ordinary Americans with the cooperation of AT&T" through the wiretapping rooms, $4 that "much of the data sent through AT&T to the NSA was purely domestic."

NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake corroborated Klein's assertions, $4 that while the NSA is using $4 to "$4 all personal electronic communications."

Furthermore, New York Times writers James Risen and Eric Lichtblau - who $4Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for this story>$4 on warrantless government surveillance - report that "Verizon had set up a dedicated fiber-optic line ... allowing government officials to gain access to all communications flowing through the carrier's operations center."

William Binney - one of the best mathematicians and code breakers in NSA history - $4 that crunched that data to identify, in real time, networks of connections between individuals based on their electronic communications.

"I can pull your entire life together from all those domains and map it out and show your entire life over time," Binney $4 while she was investigating the NSA's $4.

"More and more services like Google and Facebook have become huge central repositories for information," Dan Auerbach, a technology analyst with the $4, $4. "That's created a pile of data that is an incredibly attractive target for law enforcement and intelligence agencies."

The scary thing, as Snowden points out, is that the bulk of the attractive targets arising from that data are innocent Americans.