{"id":103471,"date":"2014-01-05T18:13:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T18:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/peter-king-nsa-should-monitor-congress-in-case-theyre-talking-to-an-al-qaeda-leader\/"},"modified":"2014-01-05T18:13:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T18:13:16","slug":"peter-king-nsa-should-monitor-congress-in-case-theyre-talking-to-an-al-qaeda-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/peter-king-nsa-should-monitor-congress-in-case-theyre-talking-to-an-al-qaeda-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter King: NSA Should Monitor Congress in Case They\u2019re \u2018Talking to an Al Qaeda Leader\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p> <strong>Noah Rothman<\/strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/peter-king-nsa-should-monitor-congress-in-case-theyre-talking-to-an-al-qaeda-leader\/\">mediaite.com <\/a><br \/>January 5th, 2014<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on Fox News Channel on Sunday, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) dismissed members of Congress calling for the National Security Agency to reform its information gathering practices. He insisted that even members of Congress should be monitored by the NSA, just like every other American, in case they are \u201ctalking to an Al Qaeda leader in Iraq or Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King objected to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) who objected to the NSA monitoring the communications of elected representatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think members of Congress should be treated the same as everyone else,\u201d King said. \u201cIf a member of Congress is talking to an Al Qaeda leader in Iraq or Afghanistan, why should that member of Congress be any different from any person on the street?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Sunday, January 5, 2014  at  12:08 pm<\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p><!-- share and follow --><!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p>&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>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/peter-king-nsa-should-monitor-congress-in-case-theyre-talking-to-an-al-qaeda-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Peter King: NSA Should Monitor Congress in Case They\u2019re \u2018Talking to an Al Qaeda Leader\u2019\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noah Rothmanmediaite.com January 5th, 2014 Appearing on Fox News Channel on Sunday, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) dismissed members of Congress calling for the National Security Agency to reform its information gathering practices. He insisted that even members of Congress should be monitored by the NSA, just like every other American, in case they are \u201ctalking [&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-103471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}