{"id":2786,"date":"2013-08-12T15:10:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T15:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2013-08-12T15:10:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T15:10:27","slug":"edward-snowden-is-a-patriot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/08\/12\/edward-snowden-is-a-patriot\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden is a patriot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does President Barack Obama think we\u2019re stupid?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the only conclusion possible after watching Friday\u2019s bravura performance in which the president announced a set of proposals meant to bring more transparency to the National Security Agency \u2014 and claimed he would have done it anyway, even if Edward Snowden had never decided to leak thousands of highly sensitive documents to The Guardian\u2019s Glenn Greenwald.<\/p>\n<p>But even as he grudgingly admitted that the timing, at least, of his suggestions was a consequence of Snowden\u2019s actions, the president declared, \u201cI don\u2019t think Mr. Snowden was a patriot.\u201d When you look at what has changed over the past two months, though, it\u2019s hard not to wonder, \u201cWhat could be more patriotic than what Snowden did?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First, the results: More than a dozen bills have already been introduced to put a stop to the NSA\u2019s mass phone record collection program and to overhaul the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which has reinterpreted the Fourth Amendment in secret, creating a body of privacy law that the public has never read. A half-dozen new privacy lawsuits have been filed against the NSA. The Pentagon is undergoing an unprecedented secrecy audit. U.S. officials have been caught deceiving or lying to Congress. The list goes on.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry130812-130734\">Edward Snowden is a patriot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does President Barack Obama think we\u2019re stupid? That\u2019s the only conclusion possible after watching Friday\u2019s bravura performance in which the president announced a set of proposals meant to bring more transparency to the National Security Agency \u2014 and claimed he would have done it anyway, even if Edward Snowden had never decided to leak thousands of highly sensitive documents to The Guardian\u2019s Glenn Greenwald. But even as he grudgingly admitted that the timing, at least, of his suggestions was a consequence of Snowden\u2019s actions, the president declared, \u201cI don\u2019t think Mr. Snowden was a patriot.\u201d When you look at what has changed over the past two months, though, it\u2019s hard not to wonder, \u201cWhat could be more patriotic than what Snowden did?\u201d First, the results: More than a dozen bills have already been introduced to put a stop to the NSA\u2019s mass phone record collection program and to overhaul the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which has reinterpreted the Fourth Amendment in secret, creating a body of privacy law that the public has never read. A half-dozen new privacy lawsuits have been filed against the NSA. The Pentagon is undergoing an unprecedented secrecy audit. U.S. officials have been caught deceiving or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1245,1251,1572],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-nsa","tag-obama","tag-snowden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}