Bush decides spying is bad

Sleep easy America. The Bush administration is worried about the dangers of unchecked spying. They have seen the danger of a government with the power to spy on anybody and everybody's communications. Not only that, but they are taking steps to curb the government's ability to spy on American citizens......the Chinese government that is.

A senior White House official says staffers accompanying President Bush to China have been told to leave their BlackBerries at home, reports CBS News White House correspondent Peter Maer.

The mobile e-mail blackout is the latest sign of U.S. concerns over Chinese cyber-spying. Sensitive presidential communications are always encrypted, but government cyber-security experts are worried about electronic eavesdropping on the BlackBerries, which are difficult to protect from snooping.

BlackBerries have been banned on other presidential foreign trips but the order underscores specific concerns about Chinese spying during the Olympics, reports Maer.

Ahhh a solution so quintessentially Bush. Don't fix the security holes in your communications, don't give some sort of warning to the Chinese not to do it, don't threaten to boycott the games if the Chinese continue to spy, just tell everyone to leave their shit at home so Bush can go watch the shot put in peace without fear of the Chinese intercepting junior staffers coded messages "OMG Bayjing sooo booring. Smog :( KTHNXBAI!"

The Chinese can never be allowed to crack our LOLspeak.