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Showing Original Post only (View all)NSA Spying Not Very Focused on Terrorism: Power, Money and Crushing Dissent Are Real Motives Ops [View all]
Proof that Power, Money and Crushing Dissent Are NSAs Real Motives for SpyingBy Washington's Blog
Washington's Blog 24 October 2013
The NSA not only spied on the leaders of Germany, Brazil and Mexico, but on at least 35 world leaders.
The Guardian reports:
One unnamed US official handed over 200 numbers, including those of the 35 world leaders, none of whom is named. These were immediately tasked for monitoring by the NSA.
SNIP...
And even the argument that 9/11 changed everything holds no water. Spying started before 9/11 and various excuses have been used to spy on Americans over the years. Even NSAs industrial espionage has been going on for many decades. And the NSA was already spying on American Senators more than 40 years ago.
Governments who spy on their own population always do it to crush dissent. (Why do you think that the NSA is doing exactly the same thing which King George did to the American colonists which led to the Revolutionary War?)
Of course, if even half of what a NSA whistleblower Russel Tice says that the NSA is spying on and blackmailing top American government officials and military officers (and see this) then things are really out of whack.
SOURCE with LINKS to details and sources:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/proof-that-nsa-spying-is-not-really-focused-on-terrorism.html
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NSA Spying Not Very Focused on Terrorism: Power, Money and Crushing Dissent Are Real Motives Ops [View all]
Octafish
Oct 2013
OP
Agreed. Dirt on a key politician is worth money, potentially a lot of money.
GoneFishin
Oct 2013
#50
I'm trying to figure out why they wiretapped Howard Baker; he was a moderate Republican?
Uncle Joe
Oct 2013
#43
What if they used it to, eh, filter out those who opposed their wars for profit?
Octafish
Oct 2013
#9
We either strip corporations of their power, or they will soon finish the job of stripping us
Zorra
Oct 2013
#55