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The Americans are embarrassed, frustrated and very angry.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/flight-su150-from-moscow-arrives-in-cuba-without-edward-snowden--but-ecuador-confirms-nsa-whistleblower-wants-asylum-8670308.html   Whistleblower Edward Snowden Asks Ecuador For Asylum Edward Snowden   The American administration is embarrassed, frustrated and very angry in the wake of the revelations by Edward Snowden, regarding two highly classified NSA surveillance programs, and his subsequent avoidance of extradition from Hong Kong. The reaction to these events over the past few days, has been verging on the hysterical, with Senator Dianne Feinstein, Secretary of State John Kerry White House spokesman Jay Carney and others appearing on our television screens and being quoted in the media, threatening all sorts of dire consequences for any country through which Snowden may have travelled on his way to political asylum.           ...

Government restrictions, but only to those nations of whom we disapprove.

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/09/block-on-exports-surveillance-equipment#post-area  The continuing export of British-made surveillance technology has been thrown into question after the government admitted it had moved to restrict sales of spying software to  Egypt .    Eric King of the campaign group Privacy International is calling for further action by the government. Gamma's FinFisher software can secretly take remote control of a computer, copy its files, intercept Skype calls and log every keystroke. The continuing export of British-made surveillance technology has been thrown into question after the government admitted it had moved to restrict sales of spying software to Egypt.  but it is odd the way in which sales of our "equipment" are acceptable and encouraged when being sold to despotic dictatorial  regimes of whom we approve, but are immediately stopped or suspended when the tyrant is overthrown and the people e...