{"id":187117,"date":"2013-06-14T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/06\/14\/the-word-for-this-is-desperation\/"},"modified":"2013-06-14T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T23:18:00","slug":"the-word-for-this-is-desperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/06\/14\/the-word-for-this-is-desperation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Word for This is Desperation\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the NSA is now saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jun\/13\/nsa-keith-alexander-surveillance-details\/\">it will provide information about how it&#8217;s rapacious thirst for our personal data stopped some terrorists at some point<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The National Security Agency (NSA) plans to release details of terrorist attacks thwarted by its controversial bulk surveillance of Americans\u2019 communications data, a senior US senator said on Thursday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Senator Dianne Feinstein (Democrat, California), the chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee, said the NSA director, General Keith Alexander, would provide \u201cthe cases where this [surveillance] has stopped a terrorist attack, both here and in other places\u201d as early as Monday.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is the important quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">But the FBI director, Robert Mueller, forcefully defended the programs on Thursday to the House judiciary committee by saying the broad surveillance could have foiled the 9\/11 attacks and averted \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jun\/13\/fbi-mueller-spy-tactics-9-11-boston\">another Boston<\/a>\u201d. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But this program has been going on for years, and <b>Boston happened<\/b>.&nbsp; Why didn&#8217;t it do it then?<\/p>\n<p>They are trying to blow smoke up our ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the NSA is now saying that it will provide information about how it&#8217;s rapacious thirst for our personal data stopped some terrorists at some point: The National Security Agency (NSA) plans to release details of terrorist attacks thwarted by its controversial bulk surveillance of Americans\u2019 communications data, a senior US senator said on Thursday.Senator &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1051,1102,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-hypocrisy","category-intelligence","category-secrecy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187117"}],"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=187117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}