[fouric]

False. The NSA has never been shown to (or even suspected of) commit intellectual property theft, which is what several of the above incidents are.

[trasz]

So the incidents described in eg https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-intellig... (40 thousand breach attempts related to industrial espionage, in a single case in Germany) never happened?

[fouric]

Please show what the actual accusations of espionage are in that article - because I don't see any.

[trasz]

„ At the BND, the project group charged with supporting the parliamentary investigative committee once again looked at the NSA selectors. In the end, they discovered fully 40,000 suspicious search parameters, including espionage targets in Western European governments and numerous companies.”

There’s more of course, but... have you actually read that article?