Applying U.S. principles on Internet freedom

The U.S. has spent years warning that cyber warfare is the New Terrorism of the 21st Century; former DNI Michael McConnell even demanded in The Washington Post that the Internet be re-engineered to vest government and the private sector much greater surveillance controls to combat it (without disclosing the huge profits his Booz Allen clients stand to gain from such measures). All the while, the U.S. was collaborating with the Israelis to engineer the most sophisticated and destructive cyber warfare weapon the world has ever known, one it secretly unleashed last year [Stuxnet]

The hypocrisy of the US State Department on “internet freedom” and “cyber attacks” is something to behold. There’s no need to translate Hillary Clinton’s speech on the topic from PR-speak to English; just intersperse it with everyday press reports of what the same government has been up to lately, and howl.