NSA 'collected details of online sexual activity' of Islamist radicals

OK, before I post the excerpt and anticipating those who will defend this and ask what the problem is with this shit, let me point out that only one of the six has been accused of any crime and none of them, evidently, are suspects in any act of terrorism.

This is creepy as hell.



The NSA has been collecting details about the online sexual activity of prominent Islamist radicals in order to undermine them, according to a new Snowden document published by the Huffington Post.

The American surveillance agency targeted six unnamed "radicalisers", none of whom is alleged to have been involved in terror plots.

One document argues that if the vulnerabilities they are accused of were to be exposed, this could lead to their devotion to the jihadist cause being brought into question, with a corresponding loss of authority.

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Shawn Turner, press spokesman for the US director of national intelligence, in an email to the Huffington Post, said it was not surprising the US government "uses all of the lawful tools at our disposal to impede the efforts of valid terrorist targets who seek to harm the nation and radicalise others to violence".

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/27/nsa-details-online-sexual-activity-islamist-radicals