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We could have stopped the Paris attacks

William Binney and Kirk Wiebe worked at the NSA for decades, before blowing the whistle on mass surveillance. They say they invented a surveillance system that could have given citizens more freedom and security….

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NSA, Fort Meade. Wikimedia Commons/Trevor Paglen. Some rights reserved.

NSA, Fort Meade. Wikimedia Commons/Trevor Paglen. Some rights reserved.openDemocracy’s Editor in Chief Mary Fitzgerald sat down to talk with NSA whistleblowers William Binney and Kirk Wiebe at the World Forum for Democracy on 19 November 2015, less than a week after the Paris attacks.