Report Suggests NSA Engaged In Financial Manipulation, Changing Money In Bank Accounts

[kpete]

Report Suggests NSA Engaged In Financial Manipulation, Changing Money In Bank Accounts
from the that-would-be-big dept

Matt Blaze has been pointing out that when you read the new White House intelligence task force report and its recommendations on how to reform the NSA and the wider intelligence community, that there may be hints to other excesses not yet revealed by the Snowden documents. Trevor Timm may have spotted a big one. In the recommendation concerning increasing security in online communications, the second sub-point sticks out like a sore thumb:

Trevor Timm
?@trevortimm
Does this NSA report recommendation imply that NSA is conducting offensive cyber attacks against financial systems? pic.twitter.com/UlO0HN1vH7

https://twitter.com/trevortimm/status/413423839922884608


Glenn Greenwald and others have warned that the worst Snowden revelations about the NSA are yet to come. If indeed we learn that the NSA has been manipulating international financial systems, whether of individual countries or world systems – or even that is has been manipulating markets here in the U.S. – the NSA as it currently exists will not survive.


http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131218/14533925607/intelligence-task-force-hints-nsa-manipulating-financial-systems-changing-amounts-bank-accounts.shtml
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/21/1264435/-This-Could-End-the-NSA-Financial-Market-Manipulation

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Wow. Awful. Unbelivable.

Actually, all-too-belevable.

Of course the Fed does this too, magically sticking $85 bilion a month in the bank's own bank accounts, but at least they told us in advance that they would do it.

[Enthusiast]

2. At least they're keeping us safe.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Yup.

From the terra-ists who hate our freedoms.

Like the freedom to drone anyone on Earth.