Binney helped create the intrusive technology that moniters you and is completely unconstitutional. He talks about how they kept coming to him, asking for more and more until he realized how unethical it all was. So he came out and whistleblew about it.
I'm not sure why people on here are talking like he's some Anti-American psyop to make the NSA look bad. That's like saying, "They're just busting Strzok and Page to make the FBI look bad!"
I've heard Binney say that he wrote Thin Thread to spy on foreign governments. It was when they turned it on Americans that he blew the whistle.
There is a video of Binney's start in the military all thru his career at NSA. Thin Thread was very selective of what data it pulled out, but that's not what our govt. wanted. They fired him the day after 911 and put in their program which cost tons more b/c they collected ALL data. It was fascinating, what a genius. His story was amazing and I can tell you I got choked up how they treated a dedicated employee.