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I'd put even money on each of: industrial espionage at Wall Street's beck and call, and a massive blackmail operation against elected officials.
by drjesusphd 12y ago
I'd put even money on each of: industrial espionage at Wall Street's beck and call, and a massive blackmail operation against elected officials.
- avn2109 12y ago>> "...a massive blackmail operation against elected officials." This is my pet hypothesis too, and it's rarely mentioned. Most governments whose inner workings have been exposed to the Western public (Khmer Rouge, Nazis, Soviets to some degree, others) have had many factionalized, competing intelligence organizations, all keeping dossiers on one another's chiefs and on everyone else occupying a position of power. There's no reason to think that our own governments aren't doing the same thing. It's not too hard to imagine eg. a red state Senator toeing the party line on NSA funding, black budgets, or whistleblower punishment because he knows the pictures of him smooching a guy are one @nsa.gov email away from the front page of the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
- throwawayaway 12y agowould the cia hacking the senate's computers indicate the latter as being cut and dried? http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/world/senate-intelligence-commitee-cia-interrogation-report.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/world/senate-intelligence-... also the former i believe is being done, on behalf of boeing against airbus here in a deal with the saudi's: http://www.economist.com/node/1842124 http://www.economist.com/node/1842124 my imaginiation is a bit wilder than you credit ;)