Former East German secret police captain says NSA spying ‘a dream come true’ (via Raw Story )
A former agent of the Stasi, the much-feared East German communist secret police, has said that the recently revealed NSA spying program would have been his agency’s “dream come true” because it has collected “so much information, on so many…
"It is the height of naivete to think that once collected this information won’t be used"
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As pointed out by John Loftus (retired US govt. prosecutor and military officer; author of America's Nazi Secret pub. in 2010), who resigned because his superior officers refused to allow his investigations to go forward, a significant number of upper level members of the intelligence agencies apparently have personal agendas which contrast with so-called "official policies" of said governmental spying agencies. The upshot is that one would be simply foolish to trust statements from spokes-persons for such. One of the consequences was the granting of US citizenship to numerous Nazi criminals over a 15-20 year interval following WW 2. It would likely be silly to expect that things have changed for the better.
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