{"id":21706,"date":"2013-08-18T10:48:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T15:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21706"},"modified":"2013-08-18T10:49:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T15:49:49","slug":"rounding-up-the-government-is-spying-on-everyone-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/18\/rounding-up-the-government-is-spying-on-everyone-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Rounding up the &#8220;government is spying on everyone&#8221; news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A linkapalooza of information at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/contributed\/2013-08-17\/you-won%E2%80%99t-believe-what%E2%80%99s-going-government-spying-americans\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Zero Hedge<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Just weeks after NSA boss Alexander said that a review of NSA spying found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20130816\/10360724207\/just-weeks-ago-keith-alexander-said-review-nsa-found-not-single-violation-reality-thousands-violations.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><em>not even one<\/em> violation<\/a>, the <em>Washington Post<\/em> published an internal NSA audit showing that the agency has broken its own rules <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/nsa-broke-privacy-rules-thousands-of-times-per-year-audit-finds\/2013\/08\/15\/3310e554-05ca-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">thousands of times <em>each<\/em> year<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2 Senators on the intelligence committee said the violations revealed in the <em>Post<\/em> article were just the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20130816\/14315324210\/wyden-udall-latest-revelations-abuses-are-just-tip-larger-iceberg.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">tip of the iceberg<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Glenn Greenwald notes:  \u201cOne key to the <em>WashPost<\/em> story: the reports are internal, NSA audits, which means high likelihood of both <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/statuses\/368187789340184576\" target=\"_blank\">under-counting &#038; white-washing<\/a>\u201d.(Even so, the White House tried to do damage control by r<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20130816\/01314924200\/white-house-tried-to-interfere-with-washington-posts-report-to-change-quotes-nsa.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">etroactively changing on-the-record quotes<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>The government is spying on essentially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/07\/anyone-who-says-the-government-only-spies-on-limited-targets-is-wrong.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>everything<\/em> we do<\/a>. It is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/08\/nsa-whistleblowers-nsa-collects-word-for-word-every-domestic-communication.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>not<\/em> just \u201cmetadata\u201d<\/a> \u2026 although that is enough to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/06\/metadata-can-tell-the-government-more-about-you-than-the-content-of-your-phonecalls.html\" target=\"_blank\">destroy your privacy<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The government has adopted a secret interpretation of the Patriot Act which allows it to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/07\/governments-secret-interpretation-of-patriot-act-everything-is-relevant-so-spy-on-everyone.html\" target=\"_blank\">pretend that \u201c<em>everything<\/em>\u201d is relevant \u2026 so it spies on everyone<\/a><\/li>\n<li>NSA whistleblowers say that the NSA collects all of our conversations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/08\/nsa-whistleblowers-nsa-collects-word-for-word-every-domestic-communication.html\" target=\"_blank\">word-for-word<\/a><\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s not just the NSA \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/07\/anyone-who-says-the-government-only-spies-on-limited-targets-is-wrong.html\" target=\"_blank\">Many other agencies, like the FBI and IRS \u2013 concerned only with <em>domestic<\/em> issues<\/a> \u2013 spy on Americans as well<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s just the first few items of a long list. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/contributed\/2013-08-17\/you-won%E2%80%99t-believe-what%E2%80%99s-going-government-spying-americans\" target=\"_blank\">whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A linkapalooza of information at Zero Hedge: Just weeks after NSA boss Alexander said that a review of NSA spying found not even one violation, the Washington Post published an internal NSA audit showing that the agency has broken its own rules thousands of times each year 2 Senators on the intelligence committee said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,10,15],"tags":[58,913,154,547,911],"class_list":["post-21706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-liberty","category-technology","tag-internet","tag-nsa","tag-privacy","tag-smartphones","tag-surveillance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5E6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21708,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706\/revisions\/21708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}