{"id":16554,"date":"2015-03-29T15:22:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T20:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16554"},"modified":"2015-03-29T15:22:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T20:22:46","slug":"ap-exclusive-before-leak-nsa-mulled-ending-phone-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16554","title":{"rendered":"AP Exclusive: Before leak, NSA mulled ending phone program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AP Exclusive: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/wp\/2015\/03\/27\/19-states-that-have-religious-freedom-laws-like-indianas-that-no-one-is-boycotting\/?tid=pm_politics_pop_b\">Before leak, NSA mulled ending phone program<\/a> by Ken Dilanian:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The National Security Agency considered abandoning its secret program to collect and store American calling records in the months before leaker Edward Snowden revealed the practice, current and former intelligence officials say, because some officials believed the costs outweighed the meager counterterrorism benefits.<\/p>\n<p>After the leak and the collective surprise around the world, NSA leaders strongly defended the phone records program to Congress and the public, but without disclosing the internal debate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP Exclusive: Before leak, NSA mulled ending phone program by Ken Dilanian: WASHINGTON \u2014 The National Security Agency considered abandoning its secret program to collect and store American calling records in the months before leaker Edward Snowden revealed the practice, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16554\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16555,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554\/revisions\/16555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}