The NSA is building the country's biggest spy center (watch what you say)

Sitting in a restaurant not far from NSA headquarters, the place where he spent nearly 40 years of his life, [William] Binney [was a senior NSA crypto-mathematician largely responsible for automating the agency's worldwide eavesdropping network] held his thumb and forefinger close together. "We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state," he says.

source: Article 'The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)' by James Bamford; www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1; Wired.com; 15 March 2012