{"id":39628,"date":"2013-06-06T16:17:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T15:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obama-defends-phone-record-tracking-as-critical-tool-2\/39628\/"},"modified":"2013-06-06T16:26:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T15:26:18","slug":"obama-defends-phone-record-tracking-as-critical-tool-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obama-defends-phone-record-tracking-as-critical-tool-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Defends Phone Record Tracking as \u2018Critical Tool\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jared A. Favole<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324299104578529112289298922.html\" target=\"_blank\">wsj.com<\/a><br \/>\nJune 5, 2013<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration called government review of complete phone records of U.S. customers a \u201ccritical tool\u201d in protecting the public from terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>The information \u201callows counterterrorism personnel to discover whether known or suspected terrorists have been in contact with other persons who may be engaged in terrorist activities, particularly people located inside the United States,\u201d a senior Obama administration official said Thursday. The official stopped short of confirming the practice.<\/p>\n<p>Former officials described the practice after a published account on the gathering of complete phone records from all Verizon U.S. customers, including landline and wireless accounts, was published Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324299104578529112289298922.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared A. Favole wsj.com June 5, 2013 The Obama administration called government review of complete phone records of U.S. customers a \u201ccritical tool\u201d in protecting the public from terrorists. The information \u201callows counterterrorism personnel to discover whether known or suspected terrorists have been in contact with other persons who may be engaged in terrorist activities, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39628","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\/39628","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=39628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}