{"id":5907,"date":"2013-09-03T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5907"},"modified":"2013-09-03T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T16:38:00","slug":"nsa-kinda-sorta-actually-is-spying-on-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5907","title":{"rendered":"NSA Kinda, Sorta, Actually IS Spying On Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I gave my cautious approval to an NSA program that said it was just collecting phone call metadata; information <i>about<\/i> calls \u2013 like the phone numbers, and date &amp; time \u2013 but not the calls themselves. We can get this same information about government phones, so keeping ours didn\u2019t seem that big a deal. Still, it seemed a bit of overreach.<\/p>\n<p>Well, we now have more information coming out of the NSA telling us that, well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-08-23\/nsa-analysts-intentionally-abused-spying-powers-multiple-times.html\">they did make a few oopsies<\/a>. They told Bloomberg News that, over the past decade, very rare instances of willful violations of NSA\u2019s authorities have been found. Clever use of the passive voice there; no actual names of agents were mentioned. Another spokesman said that the actions were the work of overzealous NSA employees or contractors. Yeah, and just a few \u201coverzealous\u201d IRS workers in Cincinnati were responsible for the entire scandal of targeting conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Like most government wrongdoing, this is going to come out in dribs and drabs. Had it stopped with the revelation of phone call metadata, I could have been OK with it. But now we\u2019re hearing about a few slipups here and later a few there.<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know. Give government power and they\u2019ll first take more, and then abuse it. Wow, now who could have anticipated <i>that<\/i>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I gave my cautious approval to an NSA program that said it was just collecting phone call metadata; information about calls \u2013 like the phone numbers, and date &amp; time \u2013 but not the calls themselves. We can get this same information about government phones, so keeping ours didn\u2019t seem that big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-government"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}