William Binney wins 2015 Sam Adams award
Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 11:19AM William Binney, former technical director of the NSA turned whistleblower, last night received the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence.
The ceremony in Berlin featured a powerful line-up of fellow whistleblowers and former intelligence officers, who honoured Binney for "shining light into the darkest of corners of secret government and corporate power".
Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who won the Sam Adams Award in 2013, joined the event via video link from Moscow, to congratulate and thank Binney. "Without Bill Binney, there would be no Edward Snowden," he said.
Snowden spoke of the "civic duty to say something" that he felt when he saw unlawful surveillance programs in action. Programs that, as technical director of the NSA, Binney himself helped to build.
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