{"id":41649,"date":"2013-06-13T19:09:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T18:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/fbi-director-defends-surveillance-programs\/41649\/"},"modified":"2013-06-13T19:09:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T18:09:23","slug":"fbi-director-defends-surveillance-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/fbi-director-defends-surveillance-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Director Defends Surveillance Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Headline\/Mueller-FBI\/2013\/06\/13\/id\/509771\">NewsMax<\/a><\/strong><br \/>June 13, 2013<\/p>\n<p>FBI Director Robert Mueller on Thursday defended a pair of controversial government surveillance programs, telling Congress that leaking information on them harms national security.<\/p>\n<p>In his last appearance as FBI director before the House Judiciary Committee, Mueller said that terrorists track leaked information \u201cvery, very closely\u201d and that because of leaks \u201cwe lose our ability to get their communications\u201d and \u201cwe are exceptionally vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs to the individual who has admitted making these disclosures, he is the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation,\u201d Mueller said without naming Snowden.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Headline\/Mueller-FBI\/2013\/06\/13\/id\/509771\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      &lt;!&#8211; <\/p>\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n<p> &#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Thursday, June 13, 2013  at  12:54 pm<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/tag\/big-brother-2\/\" rel=\"tag\">big brother<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/tag\/constitution\/\" rel=\"tag\">constitution<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/tag\/domestic-news-2\/\" rel=\"tag\">domestic news<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/tag\/domestic-spying\/\" rel=\"tag\">domestic spying<\/a><\/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\/fbi-director-defends-surveillance-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"FBI Director Defends Surveillance Programs\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsMaxJune 13, 2013 FBI Director Robert Mueller on Thursday defended a pair of controversial government surveillance programs, telling Congress that leaking information on them harms national security. In his last appearance as FBI director before the House Judiciary Committee, Mueller said that terrorists track leaked information \u201cvery, very closely\u201d and that because of leaks \u201cwe [&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-41649","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\/41649","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=41649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}