{"id":9263,"date":"2013-08-14T13:43:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T13:43:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T13:43:47","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9263","title":{"rendered":"The Hill: Oracle CEO Ellison defends NSA spying as \u2018great\u2019 and \u2018essential\u2019; we got more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/in-the-news\/316951-oracle-ceo-ellison-defends-nsa-spying-as-great-and-essential#ixzz2bxyyaNl0\">Oracle CEO Ellison defends NSA spying as \u2018great\u2019 and \u2018essential\u2019<\/a> by Blake Neff:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Silicon Valley tycoon Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, defended the National Security Agency\u2019s controversial domestic surveillance on Tuesday, saying it was needed to protect the public from terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s great. It&#8217;s essential,\u201d said Ellison during an interview with CBS News. <\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Ellison said the private sector had been gathering data about the public for much longer than the nation\u2019s intelligence agencies and had amassed far more information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9263\">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-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263","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=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}