Google's 'Game Changer' in China

Washington has been abuzz about a book with the title “Game Change,” in which two political reporters provide all kinds of hot details about the last presidential campaign. But a life-saving “game changer” may actually have presented itself online, on the book’s publication date. That’s the hope of New Jersey Republican congressman Christopher Smith, a longtime human-rights crusader who has been trying to bring attention to the plight of the prisoners in the Laogai, labor camps run by the tyrants in China. And the “game changer,” he says, is Google’s discovery that the e-mail accounts of dissidents in China on Gmail have been hacked by the Chinese government, putting the lives of some courageous people in peril.