revelarts
01-27-2014, 12:51 PM
from the ends justifies the means dept
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Moscow (http://maps.google.com/?q=Moscow%2C+Russian+Federation&z=4) - Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, last week gave an interview to German broadcaster ARD, broadcast on German television Sunday evening. In the interview, Snowden claims the NSA indulged in widespread industrial espionage.
In the same interview, Snowden, who, meantime, remains in Russia having been granted temporary asylum there, also touched on threats to his life and hinted that (http://www.dw.de/snowden-asks-how-reasonable-it-is-to-assume-only-merkel-was-tapped/a-17388512) there may be other national leaders whose private conversations were monitored by the NSA. Snowden also reiterated his view that his disclosures have served the public good. The revelation that the NSA had tapped into German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone has caused outrage in Germany, a country where memories of the repressive East German secret police, the Stasi, from the communist era, still strike a raw nerve. Last week, as Deutsche Welle reported (http://www.dw.de/obama-placates-germany-over-nsa/a-17372045), President Obama, interviewed by German station ZDF TV, acknowledged mistakes had been made in monitoring the German Chancellor’s communications and gave an assurance there would be no repeat. Earlier Snowden disclosures (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-nsa-spied-on-brazilian-mexican-presidents/) also suggested the Presidents of Mexico and Brazil had had their communications accessed under the NSA’s surveillance programs. Interviewed by German journalist Hubert Seipel, during the half-hour interview, recorded in a Moscow hotel room, 30-year-old Snowden spoke of the indiscriminate way the NSA gathered information, tantamount to industrial espionage. Snowden’s latest claim that the NSA was engaged in industrial spying, even on European allies, is likely to make it even more difficult for the US to rebuild trust with friendly states, coming on top of earlier disclosures concerning eavesdropping on leading political figures in other countries. Snowden referred specifically to the giant German engineering and electronics conglomerate Siemens, telling the interviewer, <q>“If there is information at Siemens that they [the NSA] think would be beneficial to the national interests, not the national security, of the United States, they will go after that information and they'll take it."</q> On his own safety, Snowden said he feared some in the US establishment want him eliminated, but despite that, he manages to sleep well because he is convinced he acted in the public good.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/snowden-still-sleeps-well-despite-death-threats-new-interview/article/367589#ixzz2rccN99wx
the NSA will just take it from an allies business?
Free market and all that i guess.
I'm hope no one here will try to justify the practice. but it's not as bad as torturing or killing U.S. citizens without trials who the gov't THINKS might be a threat... for the good of the country.
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Moscow (http://maps.google.com/?q=Moscow%2C+Russian+Federation&z=4) - Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, last week gave an interview to German broadcaster ARD, broadcast on German television Sunday evening. In the interview, Snowden claims the NSA indulged in widespread industrial espionage.
In the same interview, Snowden, who, meantime, remains in Russia having been granted temporary asylum there, also touched on threats to his life and hinted that (http://www.dw.de/snowden-asks-how-reasonable-it-is-to-assume-only-merkel-was-tapped/a-17388512) there may be other national leaders whose private conversations were monitored by the NSA. Snowden also reiterated his view that his disclosures have served the public good. The revelation that the NSA had tapped into German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone has caused outrage in Germany, a country where memories of the repressive East German secret police, the Stasi, from the communist era, still strike a raw nerve. Last week, as Deutsche Welle reported (http://www.dw.de/obama-placates-germany-over-nsa/a-17372045), President Obama, interviewed by German station ZDF TV, acknowledged mistakes had been made in monitoring the German Chancellor’s communications and gave an assurance there would be no repeat. Earlier Snowden disclosures (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-nsa-spied-on-brazilian-mexican-presidents/) also suggested the Presidents of Mexico and Brazil had had their communications accessed under the NSA’s surveillance programs. Interviewed by German journalist Hubert Seipel, during the half-hour interview, recorded in a Moscow hotel room, 30-year-old Snowden spoke of the indiscriminate way the NSA gathered information, tantamount to industrial espionage. Snowden’s latest claim that the NSA was engaged in industrial spying, even on European allies, is likely to make it even more difficult for the US to rebuild trust with friendly states, coming on top of earlier disclosures concerning eavesdropping on leading political figures in other countries. Snowden referred specifically to the giant German engineering and electronics conglomerate Siemens, telling the interviewer, <q>“If there is information at Siemens that they [the NSA] think would be beneficial to the national interests, not the national security, of the United States, they will go after that information and they'll take it."</q> On his own safety, Snowden said he feared some in the US establishment want him eliminated, but despite that, he manages to sleep well because he is convinced he acted in the public good.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/snowden-still-sleeps-well-despite-death-threats-new-interview/article/367589#ixzz2rccN99wx
the NSA will just take it from an allies business?
Free market and all that i guess.
I'm hope no one here will try to justify the practice. but it's not as bad as torturing or killing U.S. citizens without trials who the gov't THINKS might be a threat... for the good of the country.