{"id":8982,"date":"2013-06-30T17:43:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T17:43:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T17:43:53","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8982","title":{"rendered":"Face the Nation: Former NSA, CIA director: &#8220;The United States does conduct espionage&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Face the Nation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-3460_162-57591682\/former-nsa-cia-director-the-united-states-does-conduct-espionage\/\">Former NSA, CIA director: &#8220;The United States does conduct espionage&#8221;<\/a> by Lindsey Boerma:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The United States does conduct espionage,&#8221; and the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution protecting the privacy of American citizens &#8220;is not an international treaty,&#8221; former CIA and National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden said Sunday on &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; after a German magazine cited secret intelligence documents to charge U.S. spies of bugging European Union offices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any European who wants to go out and rend their garments with regard to international espionage should look first and find out what their own governments are doing,&#8221; Hayden said. &#8220;Let&#8217;s keep in mind that in a global telecommunications infrastructure, geography doesn&#8217;t mean what it used to mean. &#8230; The Internet lacks geography, so I wouldn&#8217;t draw any immediate conclusions with regard to some of those numbers that have been put out there as to who&#8217;s being targeted and who isn&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8982\">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-8982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}