Bill Binney is B2

The Stealth Bomber

A dear friend of mine -and occasional colleague- J. Kirk Wiebe, will be speaking at the upcoming Patriot Double Down event in Vegas.

For those of you unfamiliar with his work. He is a former senior analyst at the NSA who, alongside former NSA technical director Bill Binney, blew the whistle on a secret program stealing the information of US Citizens everywhere.

They brought this information to the IC inspectors general at the time, and faced horrific backlash for it.

The FBI was used to try and intimidate and threaten them both directly. Binney himself had more than a dozen FBI agents raid his home at 3 in the morning, where they cuffed him to a tree in his underwear, as his family helplessly looked on while the agents ransacked his home.

Kirk is one of the brightest minds of a generation, and one of my many heroes who rose from within the highest ranks of the intelligence community to truly protect and serve.

He was one of the lead minds who designed ThinThread, a wiretapping program that had special safeguards built in to protect your fourth amendment rights (and could have prevented 9/11), that was purposefully rejected at the time in favor of an expansive, invasive, far more expensive and altogether far less effective program called Trailblazer (which made no attempts to protect your data).

He is a pioneer of whistleblowing, and has since gone on to become a part of the Government Accountability Project, and many other whistleblowing organizations.

His words alone, will make the event worth catching.