{"id":9968,"date":"2013-12-12T13:54:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T13:54:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T13:54:38","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9968","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: At Senate hearing, NSA director defends spying program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/at-senate-hearing-nsa-director-defends-spying-program\/2013\/12\/11\/a21ae186-62b1-11e3-aa81-e1dab1360323_story.html\">At Senate hearing, NSA director defends spying program<\/a> by Ellen Nakashima:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senior government officials on Wednesday continued to defend the National Security Agency\u2019s collection of billions of Americans\u2019 phone records as vital to national security, despite skepticism from some senior lawmakers who pressed for an assessment of the program\u2019s utility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t go back to a pre-9\/11 moment,\u201d the NSA\u2019s director, Gen. Keith Alexander, told the Senate Judiciary Committee, asserting that ending the bulk collection of data on phone calls would risk leaving the intelligence agencies without information that could avert a terrorist attack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9968\">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-9968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968","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=9968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}