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He's in Hong Kong talking about US intelligence operations in Hong Kong. Short of the government not charging him for that specific thing (say, to avoid talking
by glurgh 13y ago
He's in Hong Kong talking about US intelligence operations in Hong Kong. Short of the government not charging him for that specific thing (say, to avoid talking about it altogether), there's doesn't seem to be any way to avoid getting in trouble for it.
- btilly 13y agoEveryone seems to be mad about that one. However I've yet to see ANYONE in the mainstream press point out that the Obama administration was recently trying to pass legislation that reduced privacy protection for Americans as a response to the Chinese doing exactly what we are doing to the Chinese. There is a high level of hypocrisy here. Call me an idealist, but my belief is that the USA as a country should take the moral high ground, even if it costs us tactically in the short run.
- lern_too_spel 13y agoObama threatened to veto CISPA if it landed on his desk without the privacy issues fixed.
- btilly 13y agoYes, once it was clear in polling that the bill was a political nonstarter nation-wide, Obama took that position. At the same time, as http://rt.com/usa/epic-foia-internet-surveillance-350/ http://rt.com/usa/epic-foia-internet-surveillance-350/ among others pointed out at that point, his administration was already violating privacy in all the ways that his rhetoric would say were bad. Of course that was before the NSA revelations revealed the true extent of the spying going on.