et when Congressman Hank Johnson asked NSA chief General Keith Alexander if the NSA could hunt down every email bashing Dick Cheney for waterboarding, Alexander testified, „No.“ Alexander spoke in front of the House Armed Services subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. The „NSA does not have the ability to do that in the United States.“

That testimony doesn‘t jive with what was stated by Binney, a man who served as senior NSA crypto-mathematician. The NSA is „storing everything they gather,“ Binney told Bamford. „You can watch everybody all the time with data- mining.“