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Re China Trade deal involving @Snowden theory
If we've got them by the balls on spying on us and blackmailing our elected officials (or effectively controlling the CIA), this is possible. Still somewhat risky given South China Sea and nukes, but a China economic collapse would cause serious issues for the ruling party due to domestic unrest.
Problem with your theory anon: 747s are majority aircraft grade aluminum, and only 13% steel.
http://hsc.csu.edu.au/engineering_studies/focus/aero/2580/aluminium_answers.html
Because the NSA did have legal authority to collect metadata etc, the problem was abuse of it's systems by contractors (and admin officials like Samantha Power) under the Obama administration.
I believe the quote you're talking about was regarding Obama's use of NGP Vans big data voter database.
The abuse of demasking is separate. No way they'd let MW know about anything important