{"id":105212,"date":"2014-01-11T17:46:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T17:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/nsa-lobbying-to-retain-horrific-powers\/"},"modified":"2014-01-11T17:46:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T17:46:32","slug":"nsa-lobbying-to-retain-horrific-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/nsa-lobbying-to-retain-horrific-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA lobbying to retain &#8216;horrific powers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US National Security Agency has \u00c5\u201cgone past its authority\u201d with its \u00c5\u201cblanket surveillance\u201d and is seeking to retain \u00c5\u201cits horrific powers,\u201d a social justice activist says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The NSA and its allies are making a final public push to keep as much of their mass surveillance powers as they can, before President Barack Obama\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s announcement on Friday, Jan. 17, about the future scope of US surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>In December, a US presidential review panel tasked with examining the policies and procedures of the NSA concluded that a program to collect data on every phone call made in the United States should continue.<\/p>\n<p>The committee recommended, however, the bulk collection of phone records by the NSA be carried out under broad new restraints that would be intended to increase privacy protections.<\/p>\n<p>The committee has \u00c5\u201ccome to the conclusion that the NSA has gone past its authority, that its blanket surveilling the people of the United States, reading their emails, listening to their phone calls,\u201d said Tighe Barry, a member of CODEPINK, an NGO that describes itself as a \u00c5\u201cgrassroots peace and social justice movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The review panel \u00c5\u201crecommended 46 steps to stop NSA in its tracks and the NSA is quickly trying to cover up any of its wrongdoing and they\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re lobbying the president and they\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re lobbying Congress,\u201d Barry said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c5\u201cThey are busily trying to lobby to retain these horrific powers that it has come up with,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The administration has provided no details about Friday\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s highly anticipated speech, where the president is expected to announce sweeping changes to the work of the NSA.<\/p>\n<p>AHT\/HJ<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2014\/01\/11\/345035\/nsa-lobbying-to-retain-horrific-powers\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"NSA lobbying to retain 'horrific powers'\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US National Security Agency has \u00c5\u201cgone past its authority\u201d with its \u00c5\u201cblanket surveillance\u201d and is seeking to retain \u00c5\u201cits horrific powers,\u201d a social justice activist says. The NSA and its allies are making a final public push to keep as much of their mass surveillance powers as they can, before President Barack Obama\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s announcement [&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-105212","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\/105212","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=105212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}