{"id":9116,"date":"2013-07-23T05:53:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T05:53:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T05:53:24","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9116","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: NSA growth fueled by need to target terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/nsa-growth-fueled-by-need-to-target-terrorists\/2013\/07\/21\/24c93cf4-f0b1-11e2-bed3-b9b6fe264871_story.html\"> NSA growth fueled by need to target terrorists<\/a> by Dana Priest:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twelve years later, the cranes and earthmovers around the National Security Agency are still at work, tearing up pavement and uprooting trees to make room for a larger workforce and more powerful computers. Already bigger than the Pentagon in square footage, the NSA\u2019s footprint will grow by an additional 50 percent when construction is complete in a decade.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s just at its headquarters at Fort Meade, Md.<\/p>\n<p>. . . <\/p>\n<p>The story of the NSA\u2019s growth, obscured by the agency\u2019s extreme secrecy, is directly tied to the insatiable demand for its work product by the rest of the U.S. intelligence community, military units and the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>The NSA\u2019s broad reach in servicing that demand is at the heart of the controversy swirling around the agency these days. Both Congress and the public have been roiled by the disclosure of top-secret documents detailing the collection of U.S. phone records and the monitoring of e-mails, \u00adsocial-media posts and other Web traffic of foreign terrorism suspects and their enablers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9116\">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-9116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116","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=9116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}