https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/05/curbs-on-surveillance-state-urged/
This memo discusses in some detail how close we now are to what Ed Snowden called “turnkey tyranny,” and offers constructive suggestions as to how we can remain free. It was drafted by longtime NSA official Edward Loomis who, together with William Binney and Kirk Wiebe quit NSA when Director Michael Hayden decided (now by his own admission) that he had the power to suspend the 4th Amendment – previously known at NSA as its “First Commandment.” The memo is meant as follow-up to our VIPS Memorandum of Jan. 7, 2014:
“NSA Insiders Reveal What Went Wrong: