{"id":154369,"date":"2015-05-25T19:18:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T19:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=154369"},"modified":"2015-05-25T19:18:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T19:18:48","slug":"distrust-us-government-unprecedented-mike-huckabee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/distrust-us-government-unprecedented-mike-huckabee\/","title":{"rendered":"Distrust of US government unprecedented: Mike Huckabee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Americans\u2019 distrust of the US government has reached unprecedented levels as a result of the National Security Agency\u2019s phone spying program along with recent revelations that Hillary Clinton used private servers for official emails, according to a former US governor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrankly, there\u2019s never been a time in my lifetime where people are more distrustful of government,\u201d said Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and a US presidential candidate from the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>Huckabee blamed the NSA and its bulk phone records collection program as a major reason for people\u2019s distrust of the Obama administration. \u201cIf this is so effective, why hasn\u2019t it foiled potential terrorist plots?\u201d he asked on Fox News Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot one [foiled plot] has been tied to the NSA\u2019s collection of metadata. \u2026 It seems like we\u2019re spending billions of dollars on the whiz-bang technology and not enough on human resources, which have proven to be the most effective way of stopping terrorism,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Huckabee noted that the NSA\u2019s widespread phone-data collection program reveals the lack of transparency by both President Barack Obama and former secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/05\/25\/412776\/US-government-distrust-Mike-Huckabee\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans\u2019 distrust of the US government has reached unprecedented levels as a result of the National Security Agency\u2019s phone spying program along with recent revelations that Hillary Clinton used private servers for official emails, according to a former US governor. \u201cFrankly, there\u2019s never been a time in my lifetime where people are more distrustful of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-154369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154369","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=154369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}