{"id":10021,"date":"2013-12-20T08:58:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T08:58:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T08:58:47","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10021","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Officials\u2019 defenses of NSA phone program may be unraveling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/officials-defenses-of-nsa-phone-program-may-be-unraveling\/2013\/12\/19\/6927d8a2-68d3-11e3-ae56-22de072140a2_story.html?hpid=z1\">Officials\u2019 defenses of NSA phone program may be unraveling<\/a> By Greg Miller and Ellen Nakashima:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From the moment the government\u2019s massive database of citizens\u2019 call records was exposed this year, U.S. officials have clung to two main lines of defense: The secret surveillance program was constitutional and critical to keeping the nation safe.<\/p>\n<p>But six months into the controversy triggered by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the viability of those claims is no longer clear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10021\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}