{"id":101054,"date":"2013-12-25T00:43:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T00:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-spying-programs-ineffective\/"},"modified":"2013-12-25T01:32:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T01:32:01","slug":"us-spying-programs-ineffective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-spying-programs-ineffective\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;US spying programs ineffective&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>An award-winning journalist criticizes the US mass surveillance programs saying the bulk collection of phone and email records is similar to &#8220;looking for a needle in a haystack.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;The problem with our spying system is that, as any good intelligence agent knows, you don\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t look for a needle in a haystack, and that\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s our spying program has been,\u201d Walter Brasch told Press TV on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The US National Security Agency \u00c5\u201chas been trying to grab everything it can,\u201d he added. \u00c5\u201cWhen you\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re trying to do that, you\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve got so many problems that develop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00c5\u201cInstead of focusing upon actual threats, they have cast a blanket against an entire nation essentially and leaders of foreign countries,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>The US intelligence services try to collect \u00c5\u201call the records of all Americans who have talked to anyone overseas and then relate that to a giant paradigm\u201d and focus on \u00c5\u201csorting data\u201d instead of \u00c5\u201canalyzing what might be true threats,\u201d Brasch said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the US is \u00c5\u201cdestroying\u201d itself through its spying operations at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c5\u201cThe reality is when al-Qaeda said that they were going to destroy America, then it was not quite true, America is trying to destroy itself with these kinds of programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US spying programs became publicized in June when Edward Snowden, former contractor of the National Security Agency, began revealing secret documents on government surveillance programs.<\/p>\n<p>The documents showed that Washington has been spying on leaders of some of its close allies.<\/p>\n<p>AT\/HJ<\/p>\n<p>With permission<br \/>\nSource: <a title=\"'US spying programs ineffective'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/12\/25\/341763\/us-spying-programs-ineffective\/\" target=\"_blank\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An award-winning journalist criticizes the US mass surveillance programs saying the bulk collection of phone and email records is similar to &#8220;looking for a needle in a haystack.\u201d &#8220;The problem with our spying system is that, as any good intelligence agent knows, you don\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t look for a needle in a haystack, and that\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s our spying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-101054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101054","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=101054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}