JUDY WOODRUFF: Now to a close look at the U.S. governments surveillance programs. <\/p>\n
Its the subject of tonights Frontline on PBS, the first of a two-part series titled The United States of Secrets. Their reporting focuses on inside accounts of the controversial spying operations put in place after the attacks of September 11, 2001. <\/p>\n
NARRATOR: It didnt take long for clues to emerge that something much bigger was going on. <\/p>\n
WILLIAM BINNEY, Former National Security Agency Technical Director: They started seeing stacks of servers piled in corners and so forth. <\/p>\n
So we had to walk way around all this hardware that was piling up out there. And so we knew, you know, something was happening. <\/p>\n
JAMES BAMFORD, Author, The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA From 9\/11 to the Eavesdropping on America: All of a sudden, people who normally would communicate with each other were keeping secret this new operation of some sort. <\/p>\n
NARRATOR: Dozens of NSA employees were sworn to secrecy, but before long, details were leaked to Drake. <\/p>\n
THOMAS DRAKE, Former National Security Agency Senior Executive: I had people coming to me with grave concerns of, what are we doing, Tom? I thought were supposed to have a warrant. Im being directed to deploy whats normally foreign intelligence, outward-facing equipment, Im being now directed to place it on internal networks. <\/p>\n
NARRATOR: At the same time, Bill Binney and the ThinThread team heard that the program was using ThinThread, but stripping out the privacy protections. <\/p>\n
JANE MAYER, The New Yorker: What theyre hearing is that the program they designed is in some form being put into use, but without the protections that they had designed in. <\/p>\n
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