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This whole witch hunt by the US is hypocritical, given that the NSA is trawling the whole worlds commucations looking for commercial and economic inteligence, t

This whole witch hunt by the US is hypocritical, given that the NSA is trawling the whole worlds commucations looking for commercial and economic inteligence, to be fed to US companies.

skrebbel 11y ago
Any source on that?
- xnull2guest 11y ago
  The Snowden docs. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/05/us-governments-plans-use-economic-espionage-benefit-american-corporations/ https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/05/us-governments...
  - opo 11y ago
    That Snowden document advocates doing that, but there is no indication it was being done or had been done or that policy had changed after the report was issued. That is far different than what the parent said: "...the NSA is trawling the whole worlds commucations looking for commercial and economic inteligence, to be fed to US companies." If there is evidence in the Snowden files that the US DOES do anything like that, please post a link. Finding that there is someone in government who advocates doing that doesn't mean much.
    - xnull2guest 11y ago
      I posted a link to a Glenn Greenwald piece, which in turn references documents and links to further journalism. So let's take just one of the cases. NSA hacked Brazilian Oil Company Petrobras to win bids on offshore oil drilling locations.
superuser2 11y ago
Every country (that can) engages in both intelligence and counterintelligence. It's not as if they're spouting a general moral principle, "spying is wrong," just "spying on us is wrong." It's a competition; everyone wants to "win." Hypocrisy doesn't really enter into it.