US defends its secret surveillance programme

July 20, 2013 10:17

Justifying its secret surveillance programme, a top US official has said that America neither uses its intelligence capabilities to collect trade secrets of foreign companies nor does it listen to everything said by every citizen of any country.

"We do not use our foreign intelligence collection capabilities to steal the trade secrets of foreign companies in order to give American companies a competitive advantage," said Robert Litt, the top lawyer for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Litt said that US did not indiscriminately sweep up and store the content of the communications of Americans, or of the citizenry of any country.

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