{"id":7182,"date":"2014-11-20T18:35:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T18:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=7182"},"modified":"2014-11-20T18:35:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T18:35:18","slug":"senators-kill-bill-aimed-at-ending-nsas-mass-phone-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/11\/20\/senators-kill-bill-aimed-at-ending-nsas-mass-phone-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators kill bill aimed at ending NSA&#8217;s mass phone surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in May, the US government began to process a bill aimed at reining in the NSA\u2019s powers of surveillance \u2014 if Google, Apple and Microsoft are sending group letters, you know it\u2019s an important bill. However, it\u2019s been left on Capitol Hill, rejected by the Senate. It failed a procedural vote, after senior Republicans said it would affect efforts to defend the country from enemies. It fell short of the 60 votes needed, gathering 58 to 42 votes. It\u2019s now unlikely to become law, as Republicans (who made up most of the opposition), will hold a majority in the Senate in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf our aim is to degrade and destroy ISIL, as the president has said, then that\u2019s going to require smart policies and firm determination. At a minimum, we shouldn\u2019t be doing anything to make the situation worse,\u201d said Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. The bill was the first to follow the NSA leaks from Edward Snowden, detailing that US intelligence was collecting and storing records of millions of Americans\u2019 telephone calls.<\/p>\n<p>Full article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/11\/18\/senators-kill-nsa-bill\/\">http:\/\/www.engadget. \u2026 ators-kill-nsa-bill\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in May, the US government began to process a bill aimed at reining in the NSA\u2019s powers of surveillance \u2014 if Google, Apple and Microsoft are sending group letters, you know it\u2019s an important bill. However, it\u2019s been left on Capitol Hill, rejected by the Senate. It failed a procedural vote, after senior Republicans said it would affect efforts to defend the country from enemies. It fell short of the 60 votes needed, gathering 58 to 42 votes. It\u2019s now unlikely to become law, as Republicans (who made up most of the opposition), will hold a majority in the Senate in the new year. \u201cIf our aim is to degrade and destroy ISIL, as the president has said, then that\u2019s going to require smart policies and firm determination. At a minimum, we shouldn\u2019t be doing anything to make the situation worse,\u201d said Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. The bill was the first to follow the NSA leaks from Edward Snowden, detailing that US intelligence was collecting and storing records of millions of Americans\u2019 telephone calls. Full article: http:\/\/www.engadget. \u2026 ators-kill-nsa-bill\/<\/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-7182","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\/7182","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=7182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}