{"id":9523,"date":"2013-09-29T15:27:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T15:27:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T15:27:47","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9523","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Maureen Down: Creeping Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: Maureen Down: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/29\/opinion\/sunday\/dowd-creeping-cloud.html?hp\">Creeping Cloud<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee in Washington on Thursday, Democratic Senator Mark Udall of Colorado tried to pin down the shadowy and largely unchecked Emperor Alexander, as the N.S.A. head, Gen. Keith Alexander, is known, on whether his agency is indiscriminately Hoovering Americans\u2019 phone records. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe it is in the nation\u2019s best interest to put all the phone records into a lockbox that we could search when the nation needs to do it, yes,\u201d Alexander said. <\/p>\n<p>When Alexander was asked a year ago if the Bluffdale center would hold the data of Americans, he replied no: \u201cWe don\u2019t hold data on U.S. citizens,\u201d adding that reports that they would \u201cgrab all the e-mails\u201d were \u201cgrossly misreported.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9523\">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-9523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523","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=9523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}