Kirk Wiebe and William Binney " have started a company ( Pretty Good Knowledge ) with partners in Amsterdam , The Netherlands , to resurrect and do the kinds of smart things we thought we do with data back in the 1990s , because this government and the Deep State as well as the shadow government did n't want us doing that here . So we 're over there doing this . " In September 2002 , he , along with J. Kirk Wiebe and Edward Loomis , asked the U.S. Defense Department Inspector General ( DoD IG ) to investigate the NSA for allegedly wasting " millions and millions of dollars " on Trailblazer , a system intended to analyze mass collection of data carried on communications networks such as the Internet . Binney had been one of the inventors of an alternative system , ThinThread , which was shelved when Trailblazer was chosen instead . Binney has also been publicly critical of the NSA for spying on U.S. citizens , saying of its expanded surveillance after the September 11 , 2001 attacks that " it 's better than anything that the KGB , the Stasi , or the Gestapo and SS ever had " as well as noting Trailblazer 's ineffectiveness and unjustified high cost compared to the far less intrusive ThinThread . He was furious that the NSA had n't uncovered the 9/11 plot and stated that intercepts it had collected but not analyzed likely would have garnered timely attention with his leaner more focused system
September 11 , 2001 attacks
September 11 attacks
William Binney (intelligence official)