SPYING: Microsoft helped defeat encryption for NSA on Outlook, SkyDrive, Skype. “We’re still back to the issue of how much surveillance the American people will tolerate. This is just the nuts and bolts of how it worked. Until Congress can exercise effective oversight over the NSA — which will require administration officials to stop lying about it — nothing will have changed. Except, of course, that the Russians have started using typewriters rather than computers.”