WASHINGTON
-- The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online
sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part
of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of those whom the agency
believes are radicalizing others through incendiary speeches, according
to a top-secret NSA document. The document, provided by NSA
whistleblower Edward Snowden, identifies six targets, all Muslims, as
“exemplars” of how “personal vulnerabilities” can be learned through
electronic surveillance, and then exploited to undermine a target's
credibility, reputation and authority.
The
NSA document, dated Oct. 3, 2012, repeatedly refers to the power of
charges of hypocrisy to undermine such a messenger. “A previous SIGINT"
-- or signals intelligence, the interception of communications --
"assessment report on radicalization indicated that radicalizers appear
to be particularly vulnerable in the area of authority when their
private and public behaviors are not consistent,” the document argues.
Among
the vulnerabilities listed by the NSA that can be effectively exploited
are “viewing sexually explicit material online” and “using sexually
explicit persuasive language when communicating with inexperienced young
girls.”
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