{"id":21069,"date":"2016-02-29T08:44:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T13:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21069"},"modified":"2016-02-29T08:44:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T13:44:41","slug":"global-research-nsa-spying-privacy-and-the-fourth-amendment-the-views-of-u-s-presidential-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21069","title":{"rendered":"Global Research: NSA Spying, Privacy and the Fourth Amendment: The Views of U.S. Presidential Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global Research: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/nsa-spying-privacy-and-the-fourth-amendment-the-views-of-u-s-presidential-candidates\/5510938\">NSA Spying, Privacy and the Fourth Amendment: The Views of U.S. Presidential Candidates<\/a> by Michael T. Bucci:<br \/>\n<em>What are the positions of U.S. presidential candidates on NSA domestic spying, personal privacy and the Fourth Amendment?<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Putting the debate in perspective, we begin with the Snowden affair.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2013, explosive details about the National Security Agency\u2019s (NSA) surveillance programs were revealed in documents provided by Edward Snowden to journalists Glenn Greenwald and Barton Gellman, and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators claim Snowden began downloading government documents in 2012 while working with Dell, an NSA contractor. In March, 2013 \u2013 three days after what he later called his \u201cbreaking point\u201d of \u201cseeing the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, directly lie under oath to Congress\u201d \u2013 Snowden quit his job at Dell and began work for Booz Allen Hamilton where his downloading resumed.<\/p>\n<p>Initial Snowden documents published in June 2013 by the Washington Post and The Guardian revealed the extent and expansive reach of the agency\u2019s dragnet spy programs worldwide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Research: NSA Spying, Privacy and the Fourth Amendment: The Views of U.S. Presidential Candidates by Michael T. Bucci: What are the positions of U.S. presidential candidates on NSA domestic spying, personal privacy and the Fourth Amendment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21069","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21070,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21069\/revisions\/21070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}