Snowden: NSA after industrial spying

The NSA is not preoccupied solely with national security, but also spies on foreign industrial entities in US business interests, former American intelligence contractor Edward Snowden revealed in an interview to German TV. Edward Snowden chose the German ARD broadcaster to make his first TV interview ever since he became a whistleblower. The interview was made in strict secrecy in an unspecified location in Russia, where Snowden is currently living under temporary asylum, RT reported. “There is no question that the US is engaged in economic spying,” said Snowden, from a teaser aired late on Saturday. If an industrial giant like Siemens has something that the NSA believes “would be beneficial to the national interests, not the national security, of the United States, they will go after that information and they'll take it,” the whistleblower said, giving an example. Edward Snowden disavowed participation in any future publications of the documents he withdrew from the NSA databanks, saying in the same interview that he no longer possesses any NSA data. The information has been distributed among a number of trustworthy journalists, who are going to decide for themselves what to make public and in what sequence.