Echelon - I was just rereading it - one can see how easily people in a position of power could be blackmailed...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543354/posts
Sorry, meant to leave the link (the one at the FR site isn’t working:
http://libya360.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/echelon-exposing-the-nsas-global-spy-network/