Congress takes a bold stand against surveillance abuses

By Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com

Fixating on and condemning abuses of other countries is one of the greatest weapons the U.S. Government wields for distracting attention away from its own transgressions: like those gossip-obsessed individuals endlessly mucking around in and passing judgment on the personal lives of others as a means of ignoring their own failings:

The San Francisco Chronicle, yesterday:

Few expect Google Inc.'s stare-down with China to usher in a new era of openness across the Asian nation, but some believe -- or hope -- it could pressure the government to improve relations with foreign technology companies. . . . The Obama administration issued statements of support for Google, and members of Congress are pushing to revive a bill banning U.S. tech companies from working with governments that digitally spy on their citizens.

Thank God for that, because we all know there's nothing worse than "governments that digitally spy on their citizens," and there are few things that galvanize our righteous members of Congress more than vast domestic surveillance abuses over the Internet:

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