{"id":9062,"date":"2013-07-15T02:29:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T23:49:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T02:29:35","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9062","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: For NSA chief, terrorist threat drives passion to \u2018collect it all,\u2019 observers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/for-nsa-chief-terrorist-threat-drives-passion-to-collect-it-all\/2013\/07\/14\/3d26ef80-ea49-11e2-a301-ea5a8116d211_story.html?hpid=z3\">For NSA chief, terrorist threat drives passion to \u2018collect it all,\u2019 observers say<\/a> by Ellen Nakashima and Joby Warrick:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In late 2005, as Iraqi roadside bombings were nearing an all-time peak, the National Security Agency\u2019s newly appointed chief began pitching a radical plan for halting the attacks that were killing or wounding a dozen Americans a day.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, more than 100 teams of U.S. analysts were scouring Iraq for snippets of electronic data that might lead to the bomb-makers and their hidden factories. But the NSA director, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, wanted more than mere snippets. He wanted everything: Every Iraqi text message, phone call and e-mail that could be vacuumed up by the agency\u2019s powerful computers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9062\">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-9062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9062","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=9062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}