{"id":5308,"date":"2014-01-06T15:03:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T15:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=5308"},"modified":"2014-01-06T15:03:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T15:03:47","slug":"nsa-wont-say-whether-it-spies-on-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/01\/06\/nsa-wont-say-whether-it-spies-on-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA wont say whether it spies on Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The intelligence community has faced heated criticism from the right and left in 2013 after Edward Snowden\u2019s leaks, and the intensity has continued fiercely in 2014.On Thursday, the New York Times and the Guardian published scathing editorials that slammed the \u201cviolations\u201d Snowden\u2019s leaks revealed and advocated a presidential pardon for him.Among those charges was the notion that James Clapper Jr., the director of National Intelligence, lied to Congress while testifying last March that the NSA was not collecting data on millions of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry140106-180631\">NSA wont say whether it spies on Congress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intelligence community has faced heated criticism from the right and left in 2013 after Edward Snowden\u2019s leaks, and the intensity has continued fiercely in 2014.On Thursday, the New York Times and the Guardian published scathing editorials that slammed the \u201cviolations\u201d Snowden\u2019s leaks revealed and advocated a presidential pardon for him.Among those charges was the notion that James Clapper Jr., the director of National Intelligence, lied to Congress while testifying last March that the NSA was not collecting data on millions of Americans. via NSA wont say whether it spies on Congress<\/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],"class_list":["post-5308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-nsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308","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=5308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}