You’re right it could be a ruse. But something to bring to your attention. He supposedly came to Hong Kong at around May 1. A few days later I planned to visit Hong Kong and I got blocked. I was given a lame excuse and as I recall it seemed as if they had some type of script when stopping me. So I was stuck in Shenzhen for 7 days before letting me go to Hong Kong. Then I got blocked for another 5 days in Hong Kong. When I was blocked in both instances they took my passport and I had to wait a few days to get it back. It was a terrible two weeks for me. Fortunately I returned to Beijing as if nothing happened. Sort of like the feeling of the Twilight Zone. Anyway, I mention this story since the NSA has access to everything. I’m one of the few anti-Obama Republicans living in Beijing. Perhaps someone worried I was going to meet this NSA guy in Hong Kong. However, a simple check on me would have shown I don’t know anything about this Hawaii NSA guy. I didn’t even know about the NSA scandal until the Guardian broke the story. But if anything it shows that Obama is starting to get nervous. He’s beginning to worry his con-game will soon get exposed.
I watched some documentary about this PRISM surveillance on Netflix last year.
In the doc, they’ve got some guy who worked a. Bell or ATT saying “On the 11th floor of the switchboard building they built out a new secure section. Basically, the main fiber optic lines are routed thru a ‘splitter’ which copies/mirrors all telecom traffic and routes the copy ‘somewhere’ to some govt agency.”
After that, they show the huge radio antenna dishes over in Cheltenham UK or whatever that town is.
Difference is, until last month the federal govt wasn’t known to be persecuting American citizen Christians, Jews, TEA members.
Suddenly Americans have just realized, “By terrorists, the White House means US.”
I am wondering how he was able to get to China without red flags being raised when they scanned his passport at the airport. Surely all employees of the NSA and CIA have been flagged to see if they are traveling out of country? Right?