does the NSA deliberately exaggerate?

Submitted by myth (Germany), Aug 5, 2013 at 06:23

Newspapers here report that the NSA identified a pattern in telephone conversations similar to the weeks before 911. I am suspicious. The NSA has recently been criticized across the world for tracking all of humanities phone calls.

Does the NSA deliberately exagerrate or invent threat indicators to whitewash their wire-tapping? Does the US government want to prove their noble intentions, that all this invasion of privacy is truly for our safety?

I am not a friend of conspiracy theories, but here it is. Weeks ago I wrote an email to friend speculating about the name of the baby born to the British Royal family. I wrote, they are considering naming him "Osama Prince of Cambridge" which is why they hesitate to release this information. Maybe it was this email of mine that set the wheels in motion with US intelligence.

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