{"id":9689,"date":"2013-10-30T18:24:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T18:24:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T18:24:43","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9689","title":{"rendered":"BLT: On Capitol Hill, Intelligence Officials Defend Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLT: <a href=\"http:\/\/legaltimes.typepad.com\/blt\/2013\/10\/on-capitol-hill-intelligence-officials-defend-surveillance.html\">On Capitol Hill, Intelligence Officials Defend Surveillance<\/a> by Alex Zank:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Intelligence officials defended NSA surveillance during a House committee hearing on Tuesday. NSA employees &#8220;have taken an oath to defend this nation and protect our privacy,&#8221; NSA director Keith Alexander said. &#8220;It\u2019s a privilege and an honor to work next to them every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a discussion similar to one conducted by the Senate Intelligence Committee in September, Alexander, along with director of intelligence James Clapper and deputy attorney general James Cole and others, testified before the House permanent select subcommittee on intelligence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9689\">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-9689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9689","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=9689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}