our mailbox sure mr binney you blew the whistle on the agency when george w. bush was president with president obama in office in your opinion has anything changed at the agency and just the failings program what in what direction is ricin in spending taking the program changes that's getting worse they're doing more that's why they i mean he is supporting the building of the bus still facility which is over two billion dollars they're spending on story joan of data so that means that they're collecting a lot more now and they need more storage for it so that that facility by my calculations that i submitted in a sworn affidavit to the court for the electronic frontier foundation lawsuit against an a say. would hold on the order of five thousand exabytes or five zeta bytes of data just at current storage capacity that's being advertised on the web that you can buy currently and that's not talking about what they have in the near future ok so what were they going to do with all of that is ok they're storing it why should anybody anybody be concerned well if you

security agency official he was one of the first to reveal the agency's massive domestic spying program mr binney revealed that n.s.a. sought and received access to telecommunications companies domestic and international billing records that it has intercepted somewhere between fifteen to twenty trillion communications mr binnie also claims that in order to cover its warrantless surveillance the agency concealed it under the patriotic sounding name terrorist surveillance program mr beaty think you so much for coming in light of the patricius slash alan scandal while the public is so focused on the details of their family drama one may argue that the real scandal in this whole story is the power the reach of the surveillance state i mean if we take general allen thousands of his personal e-mails have been sifted through private correspondence i mean it's not like any of those man was planning an attack on america does it prove does this scandal prove the notion that there is no such thing as privacy in a surveillance state. well yes that's what i've been basically saying for quite some time is tha