"If we did this, where would we draw the line? Which companies would we help? Corporate giants? The little guy? All of them? I think we quickly would get into a mess"
Guess he straightened THAT out!! The nerve of some people, questioning the patriotism of the intelligence agencies management!
Here's the Key Qualifier ----- "the notion that we collect intelligence to promote American business interests is simply wrong." It's just a by-product. The Main Goal is to keep track of folks who want to crash planes into stuff, release nasty bugs, things like that.