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[betterunix]

What's to stop the NSA from wiretapping foreign companies, then handing their trade secrets over to well-connected US companies?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

[salimmadjd → betterunix]

All these are possible. They can use the profit from the stock market to get the funds to hire mercenaries, i.e. defense contractors in Iraq to then silence anyone who ties to expose them.

[visarga → salimmadjd]

That's why any business outside US needs to move their stuff from the NSA backyard.