{"id":87036,"date":"2013-10-26T19:05:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T18:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/un-cannot-curb-nsa-disturbing-spying\/"},"modified":"2013-10-26T19:05:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T18:05:03","slug":"un-cannot-curb-nsa-disturbing-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/un-cannot-curb-nsa-disturbing-spying\/","title":{"rendered":"UN cannot curb NSA \u2018disturbing\u2019 spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>An award-winning former newspaper reporter and author in Philadelphia believes the United Nations can not weaken the US National Security Agency&#8217;s &ldquo;disturbing&rdquo; massive international surveillance programs.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&#8217;t think the United Nations will be able to do something about it,&rdquo; Walter Braschan told Press TV on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian reported on Thursday that the NSA has monitored the telephone conversations of 35 world leaders, based on documents revealed by US whistleblower Edward Snowden.<\/p>\n<p>Germany and Brazil, along with 21 other countries are drafting a UN General Assembly resolution that would demand an end to excessive spying and invasion of privacy by the NSA.<\/p>\n<p>The US will ignore the resolution even though it &ldquo;always says that it believes in the rule of law and they are a member of the United Nations,&rdquo; Braschan said.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have both condemned the widespread spying by the NSA.<\/p>\n<p>General Assembly resolutions are non-binding, unlike resolutions of the 15-nation Security Council. However, the resolution would be one of the strongest condemnations of US spying programs to date.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This whole NSA thing really disturbs me,&rdquo; Braschan said. &ldquo;I really don&#8217;t like the idea of a government spying on individuals without court jurisdiction and that&#8217;s really what&#8217;s going on in the &ldquo;United States.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>AHT\/HJ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/10\/26\/331429\/un-nsa-surveillance-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"UN cannot curb NSA \u2018disturbing\u2019 spying\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An award-winning former newspaper reporter and author in Philadelphia believes the United Nations can not weaken the US National Security Agency&#8217;s &ldquo;disturbing&rdquo; massive international surveillance programs. &ldquo;I don&#8217;t think the United Nations will be able to do something about it,&rdquo; Walter Braschan told Press TV on Saturday. The Guardian reported on Thursday that the NSA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87036","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\/87036","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\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}