{"id":89448,"date":"2013-11-06T18:46:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T17:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/al-gore-nsa-spying-unacceptable\/"},"modified":"2013-11-06T18:46:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T17:46:26","slug":"al-gore-nsa-spying-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/al-gore-nsa-spying-unacceptable\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Gore: NSA spying &#8216;unacceptable&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Al Gore slammed the National Security Agency tactics revealed by Edward Snowden as &#65533;&oelig;outrageous&rdquo; and &#65533;&oelig;completely unacceptable&rdquo; at a speaking event in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a lecture at McGill University on Tuesday, Gore predicted that lawmakers would scale back the surveillance programs, according to The Canadian Press.<\/p>\n<p>&#65533;&oelig;I think they will have to pull this back,&rdquo; Gore said in response to a question. &#65533;&oelig;I think you will see a reining in.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He called the programs unconstitutional and unwise.<\/p>\n<p>&#65533;&oelig;[Snowden] has revealed evidence of what appears to be crimes against the Constitution of the United States,&rdquo; Gore said, saying the programs have gone to &#65533;&oelig;absurd&rdquo; levels.<\/p>\n<p>Citing a CIA scholar, Gore said, &#65533;&oelig;When you are looking for a needle in a haystack, it&#65533;&trade;s not always wise to pile more hay on the haystack.&rdquo; POLITICO<\/p>\n<p>AGB\/HJ<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/11\/06\/333350\/al-gore-nsa-spying-unacceptable\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Al Gore: NSA spying 'unacceptable'\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Al Gore slammed the National Security Agency tactics revealed by Edward Snowden as &#65533;&oelig;outrageous&rdquo; and &#65533;&oelig;completely unacceptable&rdquo; at a speaking event in Canada. Speaking at a lecture at McGill University on Tuesday, Gore predicted that lawmakers would scale back the surveillance programs, according to The Canadian Press. &#65533;&oelig;I think they will have [&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-89448","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\/89448","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=89448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}