Do you think that jihadis will trust a press release from NSA? "Oh, The Great Devil (US) says you're browsing kinky pictures, so we're not gonna trust you anymore and we're gonna take whoever The Great Devil recommends us instead"

Obviously it wouldn't work that way. They would arrange to have the incriminating information show up in a way that wasn't obviously linked to the great satan. Then they would have a double-agent positioned to take control once the main guy was discredited. It isn't like the great satan would be publicly endorsing the double-agent.

Cool. So how can the double-agent prove that the guy is browsing porn?

American and allied lap dogs will. And that helps demonise the "enemy", thus justifying the over reaches and so on.

> Although the problem remains: the same methods can be used to silence dissidents

But you and the NSA know which is which, right?