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Glenn Greenwald, writing for The Intercept,has a new story based on documents from Edward Snowden which shows U.S. government preparations to engage in espionage on behalf of major corporations in the event “that the technological capacity of foreign multinational corporations could outstrip that of U.S. corporations.”

The NSA told the Washington Post last August “The department does ***not*** engage in economic espionage in any domain, including cyber.” (emphasis original)

We know the intelligence community lies, we know the U.S. government is concerned first and foremost with protecting itself, protecting individuals of power and protecting the monied interests of a very few.

This remains a major revelation and serves to further deny NSA defenders the right to claim defense of the citizenry at large as justification for their actions.

Despite the insistence of some in U.S. state media, Glenn Greenwald has not peaked.

Read the story here.