{"id":40133,"date":"2013-06-08T08:57:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T07:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obama-defends-nsa-surveillance-programs-as-right-balance\/40133\/"},"modified":"2013-06-08T08:57:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T07:57:23","slug":"obama-defends-nsa-surveillance-programs-as-right-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obama-defends-nsa-surveillance-programs-as-right-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama defends NSA surveillance programs as \u2018right balance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Justin Sink<br \/><\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/administration\/304165-obama-defends-nsa-programs-as-striking-right-balance\">The Hill<\/a><br \/>June 8, 2013<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>President Obama on Friday defended a pair of recently disclosed surveillance programs as striking the \u201cright balance\u201d between national security and civil liberties following a speech Friday in California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t have 100 percent security and also have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience. We\u2019re going to have to make some choices as a government,\u201d Obama said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential program run amok, but when you actually look at the details, I think we\u2019ve struck the right balance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The administration acknowledged Thursday that the National Security Agency (NSA) had monitored domestic telephone data and international Internet traffic from tech companies like Google, Microsoft and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/administration\/304165-obama-defends-nsa-programs-as-striking-right-balance\"><strong>Full article here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>      &lt;!&#8211; <\/p>\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n<p> &#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Saturday, June 8, 2013  at  2:48 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/obama-defends-nsa-surveillance-programs-as-right-balance\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Obama defends NSA surveillance programs as \u2018right balance\u2019\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin SinkThe HillJune 8, 2013 President Obama on Friday defended a pair of recently disclosed surveillance programs as striking the \u201cright balance\u201d between national security and civil liberties following a speech Friday in California. \u201cYou can\u2019t have 100 percent security and also have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience. We\u2019re going to have to make [&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-40133","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\/40133","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=40133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}