Russel Tice's interviews on RT describe some real world incidents that validate Binney's concerns.
Working for NSA, Tice recounted numerous requests emanating from the Executive branch for data on generals, judges, other rising politicians at the local, state and federal level.
This shit has been going on forever.
In 1980, just weeks before he was assassinated, Green Beret colonel Ed Cutolo described in an affadavit a domestic surveillance operation he supervised that eavesdropped on thousands of local police, judiciary, religious, attorneys as well as political and government players.
Colonel Cutolo was one of at least five green beret colonels assassinated with ties to these matters.
Other officers were colonels Bayard, Malvesti, Baker and Rowe.
All this info is easily verifiable online.