{"id":37852,"date":"2013-05-31T15:16:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T14:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obamas-new-fbi-chief-approved-bushs-nsa-warrantless-wiretapping-scheme\/37852\/"},"modified":"2013-05-31T16:17:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T15:17:23","slug":"obamas-new-fbi-chief-approved-bushs-nsa-warrantless-wiretapping-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obamas-new-fbi-chief-approved-bushs-nsa-warrantless-wiretapping-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s New FBI Chief Approved Bush\u2019s NSA Warrantless Wiretapping Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Glenn Greenwald<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obamas-fbi-chief-backed-nsa-wiretapping-2013-5\" target=\"_blank\">businessinsider.com<\/a><br \/>\nMay 31, 2013<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest scandals of the Bush administration (which is really saying something) began on December 16, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>That was when the New York Times\u2019 James Risen and Eric Lichtblau were finally allowed to reveal what they had learned more than a year earlier: namely, that President Bush, in 2002, had ordered the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on the electronic communications of US citizens without first obtaining warrants from the FISA court as required by 30-year-old criminal law.<\/p>\n<p>For the next three years, they reported, the NSA \u201cmonitored the international telephone calls and international e-mail messages of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants.\u201d The two NYT reporters won the Pulitzer Prize for that story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obamas-fbi-chief-backed-nsa-wiretapping-2013-5\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest scandals of the Bush administration (which is really saying something) began on December 16, 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1614],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-surveillance-big-brother"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37852","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=37852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}