NSA’s name should be the National Economic Spying Agency

NSA spying for economic benefits: Alfred Lambremont Webre 

Press TV has conducted an interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre, an international lawyer, about new revelations by American whistleblower Edward Snowden showing that the US National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have been spying on OPEC.

WATCH INTERVIEW

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/11/12/334392/nsa-spying-for-economic-benefits/

What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Well Mr. Lambremont Webre, it just seems to go from bad to worse with the NSA and the GCHQ spying situation. Why would they spy on OPEC now with the excuse up into this point they were talking about national security, they were talking about trying to stop terrorism but it seems that there are some business ventures perhaps part of this situation goes to more of a financial or economic interest. Your take on all this, sir?

Webre: Yes. Well the more that we know now it appears that a large part of the NSA’s agenda may not be national security intelligence but rather what they call strategic intelligence or economic intelligence and that is what is calculated to keep the US in a position of economic dominance.

And the case here was, where they chose to spy on Saudi Arabia, the OPEC governor and that in the GCHQ using various methods, quantum insert methods and discovering that a number of production figures that Saudi Arabia use were false.

But what is interesting is that here we have the NSA which has spied on OPEC for economic reasons, on Brazil for economic reasons and just today it was announced that the EU and the USA are going forward with the largest free trade deal ever announced except that Germany is objecting because the NSA has been spying on its premier. So that could be the NSA spying not for security but for economic benefit in the European Union.

So perhaps the NSA’s name should be the National Economic Spying Agency not the NSA.

AHK/PR