{"id":9489,"date":"2012-03-21T20:37:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T03:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=9489"},"modified":"2012-03-21T20:37:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T03:37:17","slug":"nsa-chief-denies-all-who-you-gonna-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/nsa-chief-denies-all-who-you-gonna-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA chief denies all! (Who you gonna believe?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the No Such Agency is denying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2012\/03\/nsa-denies-wired\/\" target=\"_blank\">the truth of the <i>Wired<\/i> article<\/a> that caused such a stir last week.<\/p>\n<p>No! No! Of course they aren&#8217;t spying on Americans! How could we even think such a thing? Our own government? Spying on us? Illegally? What, are you some sort of commie pinko subversive Islamist radical agitating racist anti-government paranoid weirdo fanatic?<\/p>\n<p>At risk of coming down in the side of panic and hysteria &#8230; well, hell, just coming down on the side of reality &#8230; who you gonna believe in this fracas? Lessee &#8230; one of the most diabolically secretive agencies of government, one that&#8217;s already been caught repeatedly in unconstitutional, anti-American shenanigans &#8230; or one of the finest e-journalist publications in the world (albeit one with its own agenda) whose reputation hangs on its reporting?<\/p>\n<p>Or your own commonsense?<\/p>\n<p>Decisions &#8230; decisions &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the No Such Agency is denying the truth of the Wired article that caused such a stir last week. No! No! Of course they aren&#8217;t spying on Americans! How could we even think such a thing? Our own government? Spying on us? Illegally? What, are you some sort of commie pinko subversive Islamist radical agitating racist anti-government paranoid weirdo fanatic? At risk of coming down in the side of panic and hysteria &#8230; well, hell, just coming down on the side of reality &#8230; who you gonna believe in this fracas? Lessee &#8230; one of the most&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/nsa-chief-denies-all-who-you-gonna-believe\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NSA chief denies all! (Who you gonna believe?)<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/9489","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=9489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}