WILLIAM BINNEY - Drain the Swamp and Keep It Clean

In the years since WWII no government in the world has been able to insure their intelligence agencies are doing what those governments intend. That's because once intelligence agencies control what they do through classification, they also control who can see what, meaning, who gets to know what. This is how the intelligence agencies or administrations can lead our country down a very dark and evil path.

Classic examples of this type of manipulation are the Vietnam war, the Iraq war, Russia-gate and more recently the COVID experience. While appointing the right people in key positions can begin to move these agencies in the right direction, that will not stop hidden agendas from happening in or between these large agencies all organized in secret by unelected civil servants, possibly including the cooperation of some political party members or commercial leaders.

To make this type of activity virtually impossible, the president needs to create a highly technical and independent group with all the clearances necessary to go into any government agency at any time and inspect all their databases and network logs to ensure those agencies are not violating the US Constitution or other laws. This is a rather large and difficult task, but to make it happen will require automated analysis of finite but large data bases. Further, to insure no single point can stop or divert activity of this group, making the group report to all three branches of our government would help to insure an honest process that would continue even after the administration that created it.

WILLIAM "BILL" EDWARD BINNEY (born September 1943) is a former intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency (NSA) and whistleblower. He retired on October 31, 2001, after more than 30 years with the agency. He was a critic of his former employers during the George W. Bush administration, and later criticized the NSA's data-collection policies during the Barack Obama administration. He dissented from the view that Russia interfered with the 2016 US election. More specifically, he was critical of the view that Russia hacked the DNC server. He is a leading member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.