N.S.A. Dragnet Included Allies, Aid Groups and Business Elite
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#2I wonder what this is all going to look like when it comes out that the NSA spying has at times helped companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Cisco and Oracle compete with domestic and foreign competition, as well as deal with foreign government regulators.
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#3They spied on UNICEF? Really? Why?
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#4I wonder what this is all going to look like when it comes out that the NSA spying has at times helped companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Cisco and Oracle compete with domestic and foreign competition, as well as deal with foreign government regulators.
The entire West is complicit.
http://cphpost.dk/news/denmark-is-one-of-the-nsas-9-eyes.761...
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#5They spied on UNICEF? Really? Why?
If it hasn't become clear yet, they spy on everyone.
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#6I wonder what this is all going to look like when it comes out that the NSA spying has at times helped companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Cisco and Oracle compete with domestic and foreign competition, as well as deal with foreign government regulators.
No one seemed to care when the French did it.
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#7The best bit here is right in the first paragraph:
"and a European Union official involved in antitrust battles with American technology businesses."
Spying on foreign governments because you think they might present a threat to you in terms of war/foreign policy is generally defensible (although many on here would disagree with that), while using the apparatus of the state to support select private enterprise through espionage is not.
The US government has still not appreciated the full impact of the leaks or they would be far more concerned about cleaning things up fast as the economic consequences threaten to be huge.
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#8And it just keeps on getting better.
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#9They spied on UNICEF? Really? Why?
If you look at the way NSA's been operating over the last little while a sensible answer seems to be a belligerent "Why not".
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#10I guess this revelation should permanently put to death the canard that the NSA surveillance is strictly "for our safety" and only against suspected or potential terrorists.
Of course, there will be hordes of people claiming that this piece of the puzzle is "nothing new", but it is-- this reveal is another very meaty piece of evidence for the thesis that the NSA's goal is universal control and that the terrorism justification is merely a pretense. There is literally no room to argue that eavesdropping on UNICEF is making Americans even an iota more safe.