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The article is wrong. They already aired a short segment of the nterview and Siemens was just used as an example by the interviewer. Snowden said something like
by stannol 13y ago
The article is wrong. They already aired a short segment of the nterview and Siemens was just used as an example by the interviewer. Snowden said something like "The US intelligence agencies would spy on Siemens if they had information that could be exploited by American corporations even if said information had nothing to do with national security". At no point did he claim that specifically Siemens was affected.
- Zigurd 13y agoThe example of spying on Petrobras shortly before a major oilfield auction is already known. Is there a credible national security reason for that?
- sokoloff 13y agoEnsuring ongoing access to petro fuels for the US is absolutely a credible national security interest, IMO.
- Zigurd 13y agoThat was a nice couple decades of having it both ways, but now we have to choose between taking an oil deal away from nominally friendly nations by seeing their bids, versus having an export market for our technology companies, who are suspected of collaborating to make that spying possible.