Las Vegas Could Have Been Prevented Kirk Wiebe, NSA Whistleblower

Published: Oct. 21, 2017, 2:18 p.m.

b'Kirk Wiebe, NSA Whistleblower, joins the program to discuss NSA and other intelligence agencies failures in stopping Las Vegas attacks and others from occurring. His work on the Thin Thread project led to the mass surveillance apparatus that is in place today. This very apparatus is preventing the NSA from doing their primary job. Mr. Wiebe has many insights into this subject and others.

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Kirk Wiebe Biography:
J. Kirk Wiebe is a former NSA senior analyst and whistleblower. While at the NSA, he was awarded the Meritorious Civilian Service Award, NSA\\u2019s second highest distinction. He worked in the agency\\u2019s Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center (SARC), and served in the NSA for decades. As\\xa0a senior analysis with\\xa0the World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group,\\xa0his team eavesdropped on foreign nations, collecting private phone calls and emails for NSA databases. However, with the expansion of the Internet during the 1990s and the explosion of communications that went with it, it quickly became clear that NSA could not keep up with, and effectively analyze, all the new data available. Working in the SARC, Wiebe realized this was a dangerous vulnerability for NSA and the country. Now he is working tirelessly to educate the public on the dangers of the NSA\'s policy on mass surveillance and how it impedes our countries ability to stop\\xa0the bigger issues of terror attacks and stopping the real threats to our nation.\\xa0

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See the full Interview on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/6k-rPZJfL4o

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