Comments on: Warrantless Wiretapping Supporter Sam Brownback Now Outraged Over Chinese Government’s Domestic Spying

By: China Hotels

China Hotels — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:31:11 +0000

“foreign-owned China hotels face the prospect of ’severe retaliation….” the idea that the U.S. can exert meaningful leverage on China’s surveillance behavior is laughable for reasons wholly independent of what the U.S. Government itself does with regard to spying on its own citizens.

By: erichansa

erichansa — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:28:42 +0000

keep in mind that the internet has made us all spies in a way. with everybody jumping into each others shit invited or not !

By: pcmcg

pcmcg — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:00:40 +0000

I’m glad Brownback has the time and energy to stick up for the Chinese citizens. I’m guessing it helps that his calendar was cleared-up by writing off any concern for American citizens long ago.

By: pcmcg

pcmcg — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:50:21 +0000

I can here the Chinese conservative trollers now ….
“Bbbbbb..But Bush did it too.”
/snark

By: upside99

upside99 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:36:50 +0000

I wonder if the Chinese government hired some of the BushCo Spy experts to help them out? Maybe Blackwater or Halliburton got some great contracts out of this.

By: tbone

tbone — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:04:08 +0000

I wonder if the Chinese realize that all they have to do is say it is in the interest of national security and all moral and legal issues are immediately resolved. Voila!

By: ForTruth

ForTruth — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:25:30 +0000

It’s only ok if the US does it.

By: Max-1

Max-1 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:35:52 +0000

Dear Senator Brownback,
It’s not Communistic spying when ‘WE’ do it… NO?

By: judyinnm

judyinnm — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:33:16 +0000

Just like everything else – torture, rape, murder, WMDs, invading other countries for no reason – spying on everybody is a privilege reserved only for the government of the United States of America.

By: mary

mary — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:12:23 +0000

That link above was about the way the U.S. has been spying at the United Nations.

By: mary

mary — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:11:35 +0000

But http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/custom/iraq/bal-te.md.nsa04mar04,0,4142714.story?coll=bal-home-headlines is okay?

‘Intelligence historians say U.S. eavesdropping at the United Nations is routine. The NSA’s predecessors listened in on foreign delegations to the United Nations’ founding conference in San Francisco in 1945 and pushed for its permanent location in New York to make listening in more convenient, historians say.

“One would have to have the innocence of an unborn child to believe that espionage doesn’t go on every day at the United Nations,” said Loch K. Johnson, an authority on intelligence at the University of Georgia.’

By: Winski

Winski — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:03:35 +0000

Classic case of Repug stupidity – do as I say do, not as I do…what a joke.

Tell him ATT will have all the data in San Francisco…so Pelosi will be glad to bring it back for him….

By: hussein toasterhead

hussein toasterhead — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:01:03 +0000

christopher wiwi Says:

The Chinese stole this idea from the re-pukes and Brownback doesn`t like it….

July 30th, 2008 at 11:55 am
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I tend to think it’s the other way around. The Chinese government has been perfecting the art of draconian rule since the Han Dynasty or so…

By: christopher wiwi

christopher wiwi — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:55:36 +0000

Has he been around Johnny Mcflipflopper lately? he sounds very republicanesque on this issue, lying,corrupt bastard….

The Chinese stole this idea from the re-pukes and Brownback doesn`t like it….

By: hussein toasterhead

hussein toasterhead — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:54:09 +0000

lokidog Says:

We should put one of those medical alert bracelets – a 3,000 mile long one – from coast to coast with a sign that says:

“HELP! We’ve fallen and we can’t get back up!!!!”

July 30th, 2008 at 11:33 am
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Good idea!

And I know just where we can have one manufactured real cheap. Though it might contain trace amounts of lead and/or antifreeze.

By: jay_severin_has_a_small_pen1s

jay_severin_has_a_small_pen1s — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:45:02 +0000

Why should the US Constitution protect Americans overseas when it doesn’t even protect them in the US?

By: TheRadicalRightisRadicallyWrong

TheRadicalRightisRadicallyWrong — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:37:20 +0000

I respectfully request that all concerned parties contact Brownbacks office and read his quote back to them,
“BROWNBACK: This is the public security bureau in China requiring the installation of hardware that they can listen to anybody and everybody’s and their communications and their recordings that are sent over the internet in a real-time purpose or over long-term. That’s spying, John. […] Your internet communications can all be monitored in a real time basis by the public security bureau of the Chinese government. I think they’re clearly intent upon spying. they’re going to be spying.”

Then ask why he didn’t have a problem with our own goverment doing exactly that to all of us!

By: lokidog

lokidog — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:33:42 +0000

JMOHR says:

At least, China is being upfront about it.

Irony of the day.

Jesus F***ing Christ how far this nation has sunk.

We should put one of those medical alert bracelets – a 3,000 mile long one – from coast to coast with a sign that says:

“HELP! We’ve fallen and we can’t get back up!!!!”

By: Leftside Annie

Leftside Annie — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:32:51 +0000

Jebus. What a complete friggin’ IDIOT.

This is the world you Repukes wanted, Sammy – NOW SHUT THE FLARK UP.

By: RantingTommy

RantingTommy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:32:34 +0000

geez, China is getting to be as bad as the Cheney Administration