{"id":11571,"date":"2016-01-04T17:50:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T22:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=11571"},"modified":"2016-01-04T17:50:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T22:50:25","slug":"rand-paul-appalled-by-nsa-spying-on-members-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/01\/04\/rand-paul-appalled-by-nsa-spying-on-members-of-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul: \u2018Appalled\u2019 By NSA Spying on Members of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) says he is \u201cappalled\u201d by the recent revelation that the National Security Administration eavesdropped on Israeli leaders, American-Jewish groups, and members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m appalled by it,\u201d Paul said on Fox News\u2019 Fox and Friends. \u201cThis is exactly why we need more NSA reform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul said that since the San Bernardino terrorist attack, the NSA debate has been focused on more surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the San Bernardino shooting everybody\u2019s saying \u2018oh, we need more surveillance of Americans&#8217;\u201d Paul said. \u201cIn reality what we need is more targeted surveillance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not against surveillance\u201d Paul added. \u201cBut I am against indiscriminate surveillance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a real invasion of our privacy,\u201d said Paul. \u201cYou can see how we stifle speech if you\u2019re going to eavesdrop on congressmen, and that it might stifle what they say or who they communicate with. And this is a big, big problem. And it\u2019s not a new one, but we absolutely need more controls over the NSA and more controls on our intelligence agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6;\">Source: <\/span><em style=\"line-height: 1.6;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.randpaul.com\/news\/rand-paul-appalled-by-nsa-spying-on-members-of-congress\">Rand Paul: \u2018Appalled\u2019 By NSA Spying on Members of Congress<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) says he is \u201cappalled\u201d by the recent revelation that the National Security Administration eavesdropped on Israeli leaders, American-Jewish groups, and members of Congress. \u201cI\u2019m appalled by it,\u201d Paul said on Fox News\u2019 Fox and Friends. \u201cThis is exactly why we need more NSA reform.\u201d Paul said that since the San Bernardino terrorist attack, the NSA debate has been focused on more surveillance. \u201cSince the San Bernardino shooting everybody\u2019s saying \u2018oh, we need more surveillance of Americans&#8217;\u201d Paul said. \u201cIn reality what we need is more targeted surveillance.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m not against surveillance\u201d Paul added. \u201cBut I am against indiscriminate surveillance.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a real invasion of our privacy,\u201d said Paul. \u201cYou can see how we stifle speech if you\u2019re going to eavesdrop on congressmen, and that it might stifle what they say or who they communicate with. And this is a big, big problem. And it\u2019s not a new one, but we absolutely need more controls over the NSA and more controls on our intelligence agencies.\u201d Source: Rand Paul: \u2018Appalled\u2019 By NSA Spying on Members of 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":[1245,1425],"class_list":["post-11571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-nsa","tag-rand-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}