If what the NSA is doing, as revealed in the latest Der Spiegel piece out today is legal ... then bloody everything is now legal - as long as it is in the name of national security, however loosely defined you choose to make it.
We have watched over the last several months an unending litany of "questionable" tactics being used by the NSA in their pursuit of the war on any remaining semblance of privacy, or what I think they call the war on terror.
Just when you think you have heard it all, that there is no way it can get much worse, well ... it does.
A document viewed by SPIEGEL resembling a product catalog reveals that an NSA division called ANT has burrowed its way into nearly all the security architecture made by the major players in the industry -- including American global market leader Cisco and its Chinese competitor Huawei, but also producers of mass-market goods, such as US computer-maker Dell.