Senior NSA executive Thomas Drake is an expert on spying in Stasi Germany … having studied it for years.

Drake told Washington’s Blog that the U.S. has adopted the Stasi model:

“Collect it all, know it all” [the NSA‘s model] is actually the Stasi model. It’s not just know everything; we have to be able to keep everything that we want to know, even if we don’t know it yet.“ (…)

Binney says that – after 9/11 – America implemented the same type of system used by the Soviets and other authoritarian regimes:

„You’ve got the NSA doing all this collecting of material on all of its citizens – that’s what the SS, the Gestapo, the Stasi, the KGB, and the NKVD did.“

Postscript: Unfortunately, it’s not just spying …

In the decade after 9/11, the U.S. used specialized communist torture techniques specifically aimed at extracting false confessions.