![Former NSA whistleblowers plead for chance to brief Obama on agency abuses Former NSA whistleblowers plead for chance to brief Obama on agency abuses](https://mtic.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/19.si_1-310x168.jpg)
A group of former National Security Agency insiders who went on to become whistleblowers have written a letter to President Barack Obama, requesting a meeting with him to offer “a fuller picture” of the spy agency’s systemic problems. The group of four intelligence specialists – William Binney, Thomas Drake, Edward Loomis and Kirk Wiebe