Monitoring companies and their employees along with the theft of customer lists are classic acts of economic espionage. Indeed, such revelations ought be a case for the German federal public prosecutors' office, which in the past has initiated investigations into comparable cases involving Russia or China.
So far, however, German Federal Public Prosecutor Harald Range has been struggling with the NSA issue....
Assuming "ought be" was meant to be "ought to be". No worries here, you've been told that the NSA doesn't use information collected from private companies to give American companies and edge. I'm sure that is the "least untruthful" statement they can make for now. Nothing to see here, move along.