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The Precise (and Narrow) Limits on U.S. Economic Espionage
- bediger4000 12y agoYou need to know that the author of the article, Jack Goldsmith, has something of a history: Professor Goldsmith served as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel from 2003-2004, and Special Counsel to the Department of Defense from 2002-2003. That is, Goldsmith has a reason to minimize the impact of any news about economic espionage, especially any such done by US DoD agencies. My commentary here seems like an ad hominem attack, but I don't see how those of us without many security clearances can believe anyone who used to have very advanced clearances. Further, we now have some apologetics about US economic espionage. At first, the NSA (which the GCSB almost certainly gave this information to) didn't do economic espionage, not like those dirty russkies and chinese. Now, whoops, the NSA does do economic espionage, but it's the good kind, not the dirty kind. How long until Greenwald and company get to the good parts of the Snowden docs, the ones where US citizens on US soil are targeted for surveillance solely on their obviously First-Amendment-protected views about, say, surveillance? How long before we find that political contests are meddled in at the state and local levels, inside the US? Also, how long until the technology involved in NSA dragnet surveillance gets used to protect "intellectual property"? That's the end game, without a doubt.