{"id":186923,"date":"2013-08-21T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/08\/21\/what-a-surprise-general-alexander-lied\/"},"modified":"2013-08-21T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T01:07:00","slug":"what-a-surprise-general-alexander-lied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/08\/21\/what-a-surprise-general-alexander-lied\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Surprise, General Alexander Lied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NSA still is not sure <a href=\"http:\/\/investigations.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/08\/20\/20108770-us-doesnt-know-what-snowden-took-sources-say?lite\">what information Edward Snowden took from the NSA<\/a>, despite the firm assurances of NSA Chief Gen. Keith Alexander:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">More than two months after documents leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden first began appearing in the news media, the National Security Agency still doesn\u2019t know the full extent of what he took, according to intelligence community sources, and is \u201coverwhelmed\u201d trying to assess the damage.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Officials, including NSA Director Keith Alexander, have assured the public that the government knows the scope of the damage, but two separate sources briefed on the matter told NBC News that the NSA has been unable to determine how many documents he took and what they are.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sources said authorities believe the trove of unreleased materials includes details of data collection by U.S. allies, including the U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. These English-speaking allies, known along with the U.S. as the &#8220;Five Eyes,&#8221; are critical to U.S. intelligence efforts.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, not only is the NSA lying with impunity, but they cannot find their ass with both hands.<\/p>\n<p>That makes me feel much better about their spying on me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NSA still is not sure what information Edward Snowden took from the NSA, despite the firm assurances of NSA Chief Gen. Keith Alexander: More than two months after documents leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden first began appearing in the news media, the National Security Agency still doesn\u2019t know the full extent of what &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051,1102,1066,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypocrisy","category-intelligence","category-privacy","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}