{"id":100590,"date":"2013-12-22T22:33:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T22:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/nsa-panel-member-recommends-increased-data-collection\/"},"modified":"2013-12-22T22:33:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T22:33:15","slug":"nsa-panel-member-recommends-increased-data-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/nsa-panel-member-recommends-increased-data-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA Panel Member Recommends Increased Data Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Hirsh<\/strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/defense\/nsa-panel-member-recommends-increased-data-collection-20131222\">National Journal<\/a><br \/>December 22, 2013<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Michael Morell, former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Michael Morell, the former acting director of the CIA and a member of President Obama&#8217;s task force on surveillance, said in an interview on Sunday that a controversial telephone data-collection program conducted by the National Security Agency should be expanded to include emails. He also said the program, far from being unnecessary, could prevent the next 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>Morell, seeking to correct any misperception that the presidential panel had called for a radical curtailment of NSA programs, said he is in favor of restarting a program that the NSA discontinued in 2011 that involved the collection of \u201cmeta-data\u201d for internet communications. That program only gets a brief mention in a footnote on page 97 of the task-force report, \u201cLiberty and Security in A Changing World.\u201d \u201cI would argue actually that the email data is probably more valuable than the telephony data,\u201d Morell told National Journal in a telephone interview. \u201cYou can bet that the last thing a smart terrorist is going to do right now is call someone in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Sunday, December 22, 2013  at  4:09 pm<\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p><!-- share and follow --><!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/nsa-panel-member-recommends-increased-data-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"NSA Panel Member Recommends Increased Data Collection\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael HirshNational JournalDecember 22, 2013 Michael Morell, former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Michael Morell, the former acting director of the CIA and a member of President Obama&#8217;s task force on surveillance, said in an interview on Sunday that a controversial telephone data-collection program conducted by the National Security Agency should be expanded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":100591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-100590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}