Brownback: China set up to spy on Olympic hotel guests

U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback today accused the Chinese government of not living up to its end of the bargain when it was awarded the Beijing Olympics. He alleged China has set up a system to spy and gather information on guests at hotels.Here’s a video from the AP: Reuters also quoted from Brownback’s press conference:_”The Chinese government has put in place a system to spy on and gather information about every guest at hotels where Olympic visitors are staying,” said Sen. Sam Brownback.__The conservative Republican from Kansas, citing hotel documents he received, added that journalists, athletes’ families and others attending the Olympics next month ‘will be subjected to invasive intelligence-gathering’ by China’s Public Security Bureau. He said the agency will be monitoring Internet communications at the hotels.__The U.S. senator made a similar charge a few months ago but said that since then, hotels have come forward with detailed information on the monitoring systems that have been required by Beijing._