{"id":5478,"date":"2014-01-23T19:59:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T19:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2014-01-23T19:59:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T19:59:37","slug":"white-house-rejects-review-board-finding-that-nsa-data-sweep-is-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/01\/23\/white-house-rejects-review-board-finding-that-nsa-data-sweep-is-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"White House rejects review board finding that NSA data sweep is illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on Thursday disputed the findings of an independent review board that said the National Security Agency\u2019s mass data collection program is illegal and should be ended, indicating the administration would not be taking that advice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe simply disagree with the board\u2019s analysis on the legality of the program,\u201d White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said.<\/p>\n<p>He was responding to a scathing report from The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), which said the program ran afoul of the law on several fronts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2026 bulk telephone records program lacks a viable legal foundation,\u201d the board\u2019s report said, adding that it raises \u201cserious threats to privacy and civil liberties\u201d and has \u201conly limited value.\u201d The report, further, said the NSA should \u201cpurge\u201d the files.<\/p>\n<p>The president did not go nearly as far when he called last week for ending government control of phone data collected from hundreds of millions of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Carney claimed the president, in his address last week, did \u201cdirectly derive\u201d some of his ideas from the board\u2019s draft recommendations. But he made clear that Obama does not see eye to eye with them on the legitimacy of mass phone record collection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe administration believes that the program is lawful,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Full article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/01\/23\/independent-federal-review-board-says-nsa-phone-data-collection-program-should\/\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.c \u2026 tion-program-should\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on Thursday disputed the findings of an independent review board that said the National Security Agency\u2019s mass data collection program is illegal and should be ended, indicating the administration would not be taking that advice. \u201cWe simply disagree with the board\u2019s analysis on the legality of the program,\u201d White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said. He was responding to a scathing report from The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), which said the program ran afoul of the law on several fronts. \u201cThe \u2026 bulk telephone records program lacks a viable legal foundation,\u201d the board\u2019s report said, adding that it raises \u201cserious threats to privacy and civil liberties\u201d and has \u201conly limited value.\u201d The report, further, said the NSA should \u201cpurge\u201d the files. The president did not go nearly as far when he called last week for ending government control of phone data collected from hundreds of millions of Americans. Carney claimed the president, in his address last week, did \u201cdirectly derive\u201d some of his ideas from the board\u2019s draft recommendations. But he made clear that Obama does not see eye to eye with them on the legitimacy of mass phone record collection. \u201cThe administration believes [&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":[106,1245,1251],"class_list":["post-5478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-4th-amendment","tag-nsa","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478","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=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}