Is The NSA Manipulating The Stock Market?

Zero Hedge: The Rise Of The Meta Criminal: Is The NSA Manipulating The Stock Market?

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?

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WNU Editor: Speculation that the NSA has been spying Wall Street has been making the round for years .... Why doesn’t NSA spy on Wall Street? (Salon) .... so why not manipulation.