{"id":8305,"date":"2015-04-22T19:35:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T19:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=8305"},"modified":"2015-04-22T19:35:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T19:35:35","slug":"jeb-bush-praises-obama-over-nsa-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/04\/22\/jeb-bush-praises-obama-over-nsa-spying\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeb Bush praises Obama over NSA spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeb Bush, a likely presidential contender, said Tuesday that President Obama\u2019s greatest accomplishment was keeping in place controversial spying programs at the National Security Agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say the best part of the Obama administration would be his continuance of the protections of the homeland using the big metadata programs,\u201d Bush said in an interview on the Michael Medved radio show.<\/p>\n<p>Bush argued the NSA programs had been \u201cenhanced\u201d under Obama, even if the president \u201cnever defends them or openly admits it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Florida governor said the NSA\u2019s bulk collection of Americans\u2019 phone data was \u201can important service\u201d carried out in a way that protects individual civil liberties.<\/p>\n<p>He lauded the Obama administration for refusing to buckle under pressure from Democrats, civil liberties groups and some Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has not abandoned them,\u201d Bush said.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of the NSA programs say they\u2019re a massive affront to individual privacy, while defenders say they\u2019re a critical tool in uncovering and combating terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/megalextoria.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/jeb-bush-praises-obama-over-nsa-spying.html\">Jeb Bush praises Obama over NSA spying<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeb Bush, a likely presidential contender, said Tuesday that President Obama\u2019s greatest accomplishment was keeping in place controversial spying programs at the National Security Agency. \u201cI would say the best part of the Obama administration would be his continuance of the protections of the homeland using the big metadata programs,\u201d Bush said in an interview on the Michael Medved radio show. Bush argued the NSA programs had been \u201cenhanced\u201d under Obama, even if the president \u201cnever defends them or openly admits it.\u201d The former Florida governor said the NSA\u2019s bulk collection of Americans\u2019 phone data was \u201can important service\u201d carried out in a way that protects individual civil liberties. He lauded the Obama administration for refusing to buckle under pressure from Democrats, civil liberties groups and some Republicans. \u201cHe has not abandoned them,\u201d Bush said. Critics of the NSA programs say they\u2019re a massive affront to individual privacy, while defenders say they\u2019re a critical tool in uncovering and combating terrorism. via Jeb Bush praises Obama over NSA spying.<\/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":[949,1245],"class_list":["post-8305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-jeb-bush","tag-nsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305","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=8305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}