https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/the-rise-of-the-meta-criminal/
Trevor Timm of the Electronic Freedom Frontier dug up a very
interesting nugget. It was embedded in the heralded December 2013 White
House task force report on spying and snooping.
Under Recommendations, #31, section 2, he found this:
“Governments should not use their offensive cyber capabilities to
change the amounts held in financial accounts or otherwise manipulate
financial systems.”
Timm quite rightly wondered: why were these warnings in the report?
Were the authors just anticipating a possible crime? Or were they
reflecting the fact that the NSA had already been engaging in the crime?
If this was just a bit of anticipation, why leave it naked in the
report? Why not say there was no current evidence the NSA had been
manipulating financial systems?
Those systems would, of course, include the stock market, and all trading markets around the world.
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