This article is being hypocritical in itself. The main reason that the US is losing face is not because it can't maintain the hypocritical position it had befo

This article is being hypocritical in itself. The main reason that the US is losing face is not because it can't maintain the hypocritical position it had before. The main reason is that most of the revealed behaviour of the NSA is either illegal or entirely unethical. This goes far beyond hypocrisy. > It may attempt, as the former head of U.S. counterintelligence Joel Brenner has urged, to draw distinctions between China’s allegedly unacceptable hacking, aimed at stealing commercial secrets, and its own perfectly legitimate hacking of military or other security-related targets. How is hacking another country to steal military or security related secrets ever "perfectly legitimate"? It may appear to be so from the US side, but it is never going to be legitimate from the other side. And I'm sure that the UN (which has been founded by many countries, not just the US) has something to say about this as well.