The Tom Woods Show, episode 1029.

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Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. I am talking to the fascinating Bill Binney today, who is a

cryptanalyst mathematician and former highly placed intelligence official

with the National Security Agency, or NSA. During his career, he received the Meritorious Civilian

Service Award. He then became a whistleblower who resigned on October 31st, 2001, after more than 30 years with the agency.

The following year, he joined a couple of colleagues in asking the U.S. Defense Department

Inspector General to investigate the NSA for allegedly wasting millions and millions of

dollars on Trailblazer, which was a system intended to analyze mass collection of data

carried on communications networks such as the Internet. And Bill had been the inventor of an

alternative system, and we'll talk about that. But since then, he's become quite prominent as

an opponent of NSA methods. And he's now the subject of a brand new documentary

that we'll talk about, but very important guy and very interesting guy, and I'm glad to

welcome him to the show. Bill, thanks for being here. Well, thanks for having you, Tom. I have this

desire as a host, never to bore the guest. Certainly I don't want to bore the audience, but I don't want

to bore the guest with questions he's answered a million times. But unfortunately, Bill Binney,

you are one of these souls who is destined to repeat his story many, many times indeed. So I'm

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