© Gary Cameron / ReutersA police vehicle blocks an entrance into the NSA facility in Fort Meade, Maryland, US, March 30, 2015.
The NSA has been steadily shedding staff ever since the agency introduced draconian internal rules to stop potential new Snowden-inspired whistleblowers, former NSA technical director William Binney told RT.
"The NSA has launched an internal program called 'See something, say something,'" Binney, said, further explaining that
the new internal code of conduct encourages agency employees to actually spy not only on their targets, but also on their fellow colleagues. The aim of this new measures were to prevent employees from becoming "another Edward Snowden,"he said.
However,
the new draconian rules actually backfired as employees started leaving the agency in droves, with few people willing to fill the vacant posts. The new rules "create a very hostile, bad working environment," Binney said. He added that the extreme precautionary measures taken by the NSA to prevent internal leaks after Snowden's move "destroyed the moral of people doing work there."
This new system also created a situation, in which some employees could exploit the new directives to settle old scores with their colleagues, the former NSA technical director said. Everyone, who "had a grudge" or was waging "a personal vendetta" against another employee could just "go and say something about their colleagues without giving their [own] names, report them for something just to get them into trouble."
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