{"id":14911,"date":"2013-09-02T09:37:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=14911"},"modified":"2013-09-02T09:37:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T16:37:08","slug":"who-needs-the-nsa-when-you-have-google-and-att","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/02\/who-needs-the-nsa-when-you-have-google-and-att\/","title":{"rendered":"Who needs the NSA when you have Google and AT&#038;T?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the recent revelations about DEA snooping, I guessed the NSA would have to be involved. Hm. Not necessarily. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/02\/us\/drug-agents-use-vast-phone-trove-eclipsing-nsas.html\" target=\"_blank\">Not when you have AT&#038;T<\/a> at your right hand. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sipsey Street<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>And how strange have things gotten &#8212; how very, very strange? &#8212; when you try to reach the Secretary of State and after gradually climbing the bureaucratic ladder, you end up getting <a href=\"http:\/\/thestringer.com.au\/google-and-the-nsa-whos-holding-the-shit-bag-now\/#.UiD3P-A1FSV\" target=\"_blank\">a callback from <i>Eric Schmidt&#8217;s girlfriend<\/i><\/a> instead? Happened to Julian Assange. And does not appear to have been &#8220;an isolated incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How much longer can this corrupt, rotten, secrecy-obsessed corporate-state UberGovernment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.potw.org\/archive\/potw351.html\" target=\"_blank\">center hold<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the recent revelations about DEA snooping, I guessed the NSA would have to be involved. Hm. Not necessarily. Not when you have AT&#038;T at your right hand. (Via Sipsey Street.) And how strange have things gotten &#8212; how very, very strange? &#8212; when you try to reach the Secretary of State and after gradually climbing the bureaucratic ladder, you end up getting a callback from Eric Schmidt&#8217;s girlfriend instead? Happened to Julian Assange. And does not appear to have been &#8220;an isolated incident.&#8221; How much longer can this corrupt, rotten, secrecy-obsessed corporate-state UberGovernment center hold?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}