NSA Spying Not Very Focused on Terrorism: Power, Money and Crushing Dissent Are Real Motives Ops

[sabrina 1]

23. I think the real scandal is that while they demand billions in funding

using Terror as the reason, the real work they do is for Corporations. Eg, the spying on phones and emails of ordinary people, the 'collection and storing of data' is like a high tech, multi-billion dollar way to collect info on the buying habits of billions of people (the whole world now we are told).

I think that is why they are so desperate to try to suppress all of this because if it emerges that it was all about Multi-Billion Corporations and their profit margins and not about 'Terror' at all, the funding would have to stop and investigations would have to start.

So far it does seem like there is not much work on terror going on. Unless they think Merkel is a terrorist or has 'terrorist ties'.

On the good side, all of this is leading to calls now from the International Community for International laws to curb all this spying.

The US should have led the way when they saw the potential for abuse with all the new technology, instead they took advantage of this relatively early phase before laws would be passed, which was inevitable, to abuse the technology themselves.

Thanks Octafish ...