Commentary: Obama's Spying Overhaul Proposals Too Weak To Win Back Trust

[Purveyor]

English.news.cn 2014-01-18 18:54:04 More
by Huang Yinjiazi

BEIJING, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- President Barack Obama is known for eloquence. But his long-awaited speech on overhauling the controversial intelligence community of the United States has failed to impress as it has little substance.

Obama moved in the right direction by ordering to curtail some of the spying programs of the National Security Agency (NSA) to enhance transparency and privacy seven months after the disclosure of the superpower's spying saga.

Nevertheless, few were heartened by the speech, half of which was dedicated to defending rather than reflecting on the juggernaut of country's surveillance programs.

Some are unhappy with the ambiguity and the lack of details of the speech itself; others doubt whether the president's words will be matched with action.

All in all, the changes proposed by Obama are too weak to remedy the damage of U.S. spying, which spared almost nobody, even its close allies.

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[Cha]

1. Yeah yeah.. nice to hear from China.. go China.

[1000words]

3. yah ... Failing empires really shouldn't care about emerging ones

Pffffttt ... If we can't bomb the shit out of 'em, why bother?

[Luminous Animal]

4. Actually, it is.

[RC]

2. Right here is the problem

Obama moved in the right direction...

He needs ignore their signs and move in the other Left direction.

[woo me with science]

5. +1 It's an attempt at an advertising solution, not a real solution.

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This is the problem of a corporate government as opposed to a government "of, by, and for the people."

Now that we have Corporatists instead of Representatives in office, their goals have shifted from *representing* us to *marketing* to us.