{"id":9493,"date":"2013-09-25T14:28:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T14:28:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T14:28:28","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9493","title":{"rendered":"Politico: NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander slams &#8216;sensationalized&#8217; reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/09\/nsa-chief-slams-sensationalized-reporting-97337.html#ixzz2fvkTVMH0\">NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander slams &#8216;sensationalized&#8217; reporting<\/a> by Tony Romm:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The leader of the embattled National Security Agency doubled down Wednesday against calls from Capitol Hill to restrict U.S. government surveillance programs \u2014 a campaign he attributed to \u201csensationalized\u201d reporting and \u201cmedia leaks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gen. Keith Alexander instead emphasized the NSA isn\u2019t \u201clistening to Americans\u2019 phone calls and reading their emails,\u201d and he urged technology and government leaders at a cybersecurity conference in Washington to help \u201cget the facts out\u201d and \u201cget our nation to understand why we need these tools\u201d in the wake of Edward Snowden\u2019s disclosures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9493\">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-9493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493","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=9493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}