{"id":145626,"date":"2015-04-07T20:15:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T20:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=145626"},"modified":"2015-04-07T20:15:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T20:15:34","slug":"glenn-greenwald-nsa-surveillance-program-is-antithesis-of-fourth-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/glenn-greenwald-nsa-surveillance-program-is-antithesis-of-fourth-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Greenwald: NSA Surveillance Program is \u2018Antithesis\u2019 of Fourth Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer and journalist who became a left-wing celebrity for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/politics\/2014\/05\/edward-snowden-politics-interview\" target=\"_blank\">articles helping whistle-blower Edward Snowden <\/a>expose the NSA\u2019s mass-surveillance program, admits enjoying the reaction when critics discovered he would be in North Texas to appear on Glenn Beck\u2019s right-wing radio show\u2013and then to address the conservative National Center for Policy Analysis.<\/h5>\n<p>Talking Friday to about 250 people at a luncheon meeting of the NCPA, a Dallas think tank that\u2019s headed now by <a href=\"http:\/\/frontburner.dmagazine.com\/2014\/11\/07\/think-tank-names-outspoken-conservative-allen-west-as-ceo\/\" target=\"_blank\">tea party hero Allen West<\/a>, Greenwald said of <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/article\/44488_Followup-_Glenn_Beck_and_Glenn_Greenwald_Agree_on_Pretty_Much_Everything\" target=\"_blank\">the kerfuffle<\/a> that was particularly created by his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glennbeck.com\/2015\/04\/03\/glenn-greenwald-heres-the-truth-about-edward-snowden\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beck appearance<\/a>: \u201cI love it.\u201d He recalled trading barbs with \u201cpeople on Twitter who thought it was a terrible thing to do.\u201d But, he added, \u201cI\u2019ve made it a point to find common ground. I find that\u2019s a healthy thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his talk to the NCPA, the former columnist for The Guardian newspaper said free speech and government transparency aren\u2019t conservative or liberal ideals, but ones that citizen-activists on both sides\u2013right-wing tea partiers as well as Occupy Wall Street leftists\u2013basically support. The \u201csplit is not so much between conservative and liberal, but between insiders in Washington and outsiders in Washington,\u201d he said. And as Newt Gingrich noted back in the 1990s, Greenwald said, \u201cThe mainstream view in the United States is that people do not trust the federal government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/frontburner.dmagazine.com\/2015\/04\/06\/glenn-greenwald-in-north-texas-nsa-surveillance-program-is-antithesis-of-fourth-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer and journalist who became a left-wing celebrity for his articles helping whistle-blower Edward Snowden expose the NSA\u2019s mass-surveillance program, admits enjoying the reaction when critics discovered he would be in North Texas to appear on Glenn Beck\u2019s right-wing radio show\u2013and then to address the conservative National Center for Policy Analysis. Talking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1614,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-145626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-surveillance-big-brother","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145626","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}