NSA's Bleating over Snowden Revelations Continue to Ring Hollow

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NSA's Bleating over Snowden Revelations Continue to Ring Hollow
OpEdNews Op Eds 2/4/2014 at 06:42:07
By Dave Lefcourt

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So now in a snit, the "agency", its various cyber security "experts", pundits and fellow travelers are on the counter-attack blaming Snowden for U.S. banks, defense industries, telecom companies and other large institutions for being vulnerable to foreign cyber attackers ability to crash their computer networks.

But the NSA's whining is mostly falling on deaf ears. Simply put, everyone now knows the NSA is the INITIATOR of cyberwarfare against all others so their truth credibility is next to zero in the eyes of most foreigners. And it gets little sympathy from an American public when they learn they've been indiscriminately targeted, have done nothing wrong and where the "agency" has no probable cause. So, the idea of the "agency" doing right by the public is rejected out of hand.

Consider; Snowden's revelations of the NSA spying on Petrobras, Brazil's largest energy corporation convinced those overseas the NSA obviously conducts economic espionage. Then there's the NSA's clandestine "back door" entry into American software products sold to foreign clients which has enraged the software manufacturers and caused billions in lost profits. Throw in the revelations of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's personal cell being monitored, the intercepting of communications of Brazils President Dilma Rouseff and Mexican President Felipe Calderon, the office of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and the like and lest we forget the U.S. initiated "Stuxnet" cyberwarfare attack disrupting Iran's computers enriching uranium in 2010 and its pretty clear the U.S. has been at the forefront in initiating cyberwarfare.

And if we're to believe the government's propaganda pronouncements of the NSA's good intentions, it's snooping done to protect the American people, but also kept secret for reasons of national security, it becomes bleating in the wilderness.