It came out this week that the NSA spied on the headquarters of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund [10], and United Nations [11].
It was also alleged that the NSA spied on the Vatican and the Pope [12].
Congressman Rand Paul asks whether the NSA might be spying on President Obama [13] as well.
Congressman Devin Nunes said in that the Department of Justice was tapping phones in the Congressional cloak room [14].
Sounds crazy …
But it is well-documented that the NSA was already spying on American Senators more than 40 years ago [15].
And a high-level NSA whistleblower says that the NSA is spying on – and blackmailing – top government officials and military officers [16], including Supreme Court Justices, high-ranked generals, Colin Powell and other State Department personnel [17], and many other top officials. And see this:
He says the NSA started spying on President Obama [18] when he was a candidate for Senate:
Another very high-level NSA whistleblower – the head of the NSA’s global intelligence gathering operation – says that the NSA targeted CIA chief Petraeus [19].
Of course, the NSA also spied on the leaders of Germany [20], Brazil [21] and Mexico [22], and at least 35 world leaders [23] total.
The NSA also spies on the European Union [24], the European Parliament [25], the G20 summit [26] and other allies.
A confidential government memo admits [23] that the spying didn’t help prevent terrorism:
The memo acknowledges that eavesdropping on the numbers had produced “little reportable intelligence”.
Because the leaders of allies such as Germany, Brazil, Mexico, the EU and G-20 have no ties to Al Qaeda terrorists, the spying was obviously done for other purposes.
The NSA conducts widespread industrial espionage [27] on our allies. That has nothing to do with terrorism, either. And the NSA’s industrial espionage has been going on for many decades [27].
Indeed, there is no evidence that mass surveillance has prevented a single terrorist attack [28]. On the contrary, top counter-terror experts say that mass spying actually hurts U.S. counter-terror efforts [29] (more here [30] and here [31]).
If NSA spying were really focused on terrorism, our allies and companies wouldn’t be fighting back so hard [32] against it.
BONUS:
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Feinstein Introduces Trojan Horse … But Tech Giants Throw Weight Behind Legislation Which Would ACTUALLY Rein In NSA Spying [33]
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Congress Acting Surprised By NSA Spying Is Like a Parent Saying “I Can’t Believe You Stayed Out All Night and Got Drunk … Just Because I Left You a Keg Of Beer and a Note That Said ‘Do Whatever The F@ck You Want, For As Long As You Want!’” [34]