The document summarizes concerns about government surveillance programs as discussed by several whistleblowers. It begins by discussing Eisenhower's warning about the military-industrial complex capturing public policy. It then discusses how leaked documents from Edward Snowden and others show the NSA collecting all electronic communications data in violation of the 4th Amendment's warrant requirements. Whistleblowers like Binney, Klein, and Tice corroborate that the NSA collects everything to have access to anyone's data at any time, allowing for misuse of power like blackmail.

1. BIG BROTHER
No Longer Fiction

2. Eisenhower
 Jan. 17, 1961 (farewell address):Warned the
nation of the potential for “unwarranted
influence, whether sought or unsought, by
the military-industrial complex.”
 Also said one of the ways this could manifest
is through the “danger that public policy
could itself become the captive of a scientific-
technological elite.”

3. The Internet Generation
 Pause to consider this: you probably use the
internet for several hours each week, if not
every day of your life. Fifteen years ago this
would not have been the case. Most of us
have barely begun to grasp what age we live
in. Usually history grants that perspective.
 Could Eisenhower have been referring to our
time? Are we living in a time where his words
are applicable?

4. ?
 “The right of the people to be secure in their
persons, houses, papers, and effects, against
unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not
be violated, and noWarrants shall issue, but
upon probable cause, supported by Oath or
affirmation, and particularly describing the
place to be searched, and the persons or
things to be seized.”

5. The 4th Amendment
 Warrants
 Probable cause
 Oath or affirmation supporting probable
cause
 Particularly describing place to be searched
 Particularly describing the persons to be
searched or things to be seized

6. Edward Snowden
 “I don’t want public attention because I don’t
want the story to be about me. I want it to be
about what the US government is doing.”
 NSA consultant, leaked doc. to Guardian
 Another recent piece: “the NSA reportedly is
making a copy of nearly every international
email. It then searched that cloned data,
keeping all of the emails containing keywords
and deleting the rest – all in a matter of
seconds.”

7. William Binney

8. A Question for William
Binney
 Q: Does this scandal prove that there is no
such thing as privacy in the surveillance
state?
 “Well yes, that’s what I’ve been basically
saying for quite some time, is that the FBI has
access to the data collected which is basically
the emails of virtually everybody in the
country and the FBI has access to it, all the
congressional members are under
surveillance too. No one’s excluded.”

9. Mark Klein
 Worked for AT&T facility in San Francisco
 2003: Discovered a room 641A where NSA
was splitting off cables and copying
information traffic on the internet.

10. Russell Tice

11. Russell Tice: An
Introduction
 Worked for the NSA as satellite systems
specialist.
 Worked with 2005 NYT piece “Spying
Program Snared U.S. Calls” where it was
written that the program was used to spy on
only “as many as 500 people at any one
time.”

12. A Question for Russell Tice
 Q: Can you give us your impression on what’s
been released… what’s being talked about and
what’s not being talked about so far?
 “Here’s the big thing: NSA collects everything.
NSA collects word-for-word content of every
phone call communication, of every email, of
every Skype message system, of everything. Of
all the Facebook and all the Google and all that
other information too.They collect everything.
It’s all automated by system.”

13. More from Russell Tice
 Went on Keith Olbermann Jan. 21, 2009 (day after Bush
presidency ended).
 Speaking back on that appearance, said “back then the
NSA didn’t have the capability to go after everything” for a
couple reasons.
 “One was they didn’t have the computer processing
capability to go after, to process everything.The second
was they didn’t have the electricity.They literally didn’t
have the power.”
 “For more than a couple years, they were making everyone
at analysts – or all the folks at NSA – freeze during the
winter and roast during the summer because they were
cutting back on heating and air conditioning to pump more
electricity into those vast computers that they were setting
up…. they didn’t have the electricity to run everything.”

14. Tice continued
 “Hence, they were upgrading facilities at Fort
Meade [NSA Headquarters] as best they
could.They were going to other places in
Texas and in Georgia.And then ultimately,
the key was to build this Bluffdale, Utah
facility out west.”

15. Upgrading

16. What Are They Storing?
 Answer: Everything
 Tice: “They decided they were just going to
collect everything.”
 “Then later on at some point they wanna go
‘Okay we want to know what Mr. Corbett said in
the last seven years’ or whatever for some
reason, and they go back and they pull out all
your information, all the conversations you’ve
had in the last seven years and then they process
that information and… have human analysts
looking at it.”

17. Why Privacy Matters
 Daniel J. Solove, Associate Professor, GWU Law School:
 “Commentators often attempt to refute the nothing-to-
hide argument by pointing to things people want to hide.
But the problem with the nothing-to-hide argument is the
underlying assumption that privacy is about hiding bad
things. By accepting this assumption, we concede far too
much ground and invite an unproductive discussion about
information that people would very likely want to hide. As…
Schneier aptly notes, the nothing-to-hide argument stems
from a faulty ‘premise that privacy is about hiding a wrong.’
Surveillance, for example, can inhibit such lawful activities
as free speech, free association, and other First
Amendment rights essential for democracy.”

18. A Question for Edward
Snowden
 Q:Why should people care about surveillance?
 “Because even if you’re not doing anything wrong you’re
being watched and recorded, and the storage capabilities
of these systems increases every year consistently by
orders of magnitude to where it’s getting to the point you
don’t even have to have done anything wrong.You simply
have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody –
even by a wrong call – and then they can use the system to
go back in time and scrutinize every decision you’ve ever
made, every friend you’ve ever discussed something with,
and attack you on that basis to sort of derive suspicion from
an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a
wrongdoer.”
 CorroboratesTice

19. What We Know
 So, system collects everything.
 Can then target specific people to find their
information.

20. Other Dangers
 Corbett: “If knowledge is power, then the knowledge that comes with
collection of all, interception of all communications in the United States
and around the world is just an incredible amount of power that
obviously can be used politically. …I think the number one implication of
all this is the power that can be used via blackmail.”
 Some people targeted by NSA (Tice):
 Journalists
 Members of Congress – both houses
 Federal judges
 Every member of the Supreme Court (held Alito’s paperwork in his hand)
 Scott McClellan,White House Press Secretary
 Colin Powell – Secretary of State, Generals - Shinsheki & Petraeus
 Obama (back in 2004)

21. Conclusion
 The political system of the United States is
predicated upon a delicate balance of powers
– “checks and balances” – some of which are
vested in its citizens. Given the apparent
tension between recently leaked government
surveillance programs and certain civil
liberties, we should pay close attention to
what is going on around us.

22. Outcomes
 Be able to state basic purpose and provisions
of (familiar with) 4th Amendment (e.g.
warrants)
 Recognize tensions between 4th Amendment
and current (leaked) government surveillance
programs
 State one danger resulting from granting
government these powers (universal
warrantless surveillance)

23. Bibliography
 Presidential Farewell Address – Dwight D. Eisenhower
AmericanRhetoric.com:
http://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwightdeisenhowerfarewell.html
 United States Constitution, Amendment IV
Archives.gov:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html
 “Meet theWhistleblower Responsible for the Massive NSA Leak”
Alternet.org: http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/whistleblower
 “The NSA is turning the internet into a total surveillance system”
The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/11/nsa-
internet-surveillance-email
 “NSAWhistleblower: Everyone in US under virtual surveillance, all info stored,
no matter the post”
Youtube.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuET0kpHoyM
 “AT&T Whistle-Blower’s Evidence”
Wired.com: archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/05/70908

24. Bibliography cont.
 “Interview 685 – RussTice Reveals theTruth About NSA Spying”
The Corbett Report.com: http://www.corbettreport.com/interview-
685-russ-tice-reveals-the-truth-about-nsa-spying/
 “Spying Program Snared U.S. Calls”
The NewYorkTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/21/politics/21nsa.html
 “The NSA’s New Spy Facilities are 7Times BiggerThan the Pentagon”
DefenseOne.com:
http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2013/07/nsas-big-dig/67406/
 “Why Privacy Matters Even ifYou Have ‘Nothing to Hide’”
The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Why-
Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/
 “NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘I don’t want to live in a society
that does these sort of things’”
Youtube.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hLjuVyIIrs