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Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote 
> Michelle Steiner wrote
>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote

>>>>> But sure, the NSA aims only at terrorists.

>>>> No one ever claimed that.

>>> US officials did.

>> No, they didn't.  Any reports you may have read saying that 
>> they did are distortions at best and fabrications at worst.
 
> Ok, if you feel that the video at 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6Kc5Xvr24Aw> is 
> a fabrication, be my guest. But I'd say that Keith Alexander 
> is actually a quite high-ranking US official 

Director of the NSA in fact. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_B._Alexander

> and that the video looks pretty original to me.
 
> That Alexander claims to protect at the same time civil rights and 
> privacy is no more than a claim to me, and not a very likely one 
> seeing that they routinely violate civil rights and privacy of people 
> known to have no connection to terrorism whatsoever.