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References please. I suspect you're right, but I'd never claim it as fact without some evidence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/820758.stm

"... US firm Raytheon used information picked up from NSA snooping to secure a $1.4bn contract to supply a radar system to Brazil instead of France's Thomson-CSF.

"[...]

"But former CIA director James Woolsey, in an article in March for the Wall Street Journal, acknowledged that the US did conduct economic espionage against its European allies, though he did not specify if Echelon was involved."

Yes, but China thinks their claim yields sufficient evidence even in the cases in which a us citizen acted independently (aka blackhats).

I'm sure we do have all sorts of cyber espionage efforts, but Iranians using Twitter is not one of them.

Perhaps this will help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

Perhaps this will help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_calling_the_kettle_black