Intelligence
During a standing-room-only event held at
Unter den Linden 52 in the shadow of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, Sam Adams Associates for Integrity
in Intelligence (SAAII)
presented its 14th annual award to ex-National Security Agency official William
Binney on Jan. 22. Binney ended his 36-year career in intelligence after 9/11
when he learned that NSA Director Michael Hayden had removed Fourth
Amendment privacy protections from the agency's surveillance of Americans.
More than half of the former Sam Adams award recipients, who were free
to travel, took part in the award ceremony. In the not-free-to-travel category,
Edward Snowden (recipient in 2013) took part via live-stream video from Russia;
former Army Pvt. Chelsea (Bradley) Manning (2014) is serving a 35-year sentence
for releasing to WikiLeaks video and classified messages revealing, among other
things, U.S. war crimes in Iraq. And WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange (2010)
is well into his third year of confinement in Ecuador's London embassy where he
has political asylum.
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