William Binney (intelligence official)

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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, where he served as Technical Director for intelligence. Binney co-developed ThinThread, a signals intelligence collection program with built-in privacy protections that was shelved in favor of the more expensive Trailblazer Project. In 2002, he and colleagues filed a complaint with the Department of Defense Inspector General alleging waste and mismanagement. The FBI raided his home in 2007; he was never charged. His treatment, along with that of other NSA whistleblowers, influenced Edward Snowden's decision to go public rather than use internal channels. Binney was a critic of NSA surveillance practices during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations and testified before the German Bundestag's NSA commission in 2014. He received the Sam Adams Award...

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