Former Australian Prime Minister Gillard jokes about NSA spying

Revelations about NSA mass spying on virtually every citizen around the world, including key allies of the US, is causing justifiable outrage… globally.
Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, speaking in the US, shows the kind of subservience to Washington that is all too common in our political and media class. We’re a client state and seemingly happy to remain so:

If my telephone was intercepted when I was prime minister, all that anybody would have heard would have been praise for president Obama.

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