{"id":20326,"date":"2018-09-11T13:22:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T13:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.yogaesoteric.net\/demascarea-masoneriei-ro\/descoperiti-manevrele-francmasoneriei-3480-ro\/snowden-if-trump-so-concerned-about-government-spying-he-should-fix-it\/"},"modified":"2018-09-11T13:22:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T13:22:57","slug":"snowden-if-trump-so-concerned-about-government-spying-he-should-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/snowden-if-trump-so-concerned-about-government-spying-he-should-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowden: If Trump So Concerned About Government Spying, He Should Fix It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/all_uploads\/uploads4\/septembrie\/11\/16943\/16943.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  If President Donald Trump really cares about government spying, he should reform the National Security Agency&#8217;s (NSA) mass surveillance program, whistleblower Edward Snowden suggested.&#160;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Speaking by video to The Intercept&#8217;s Jeremy Scahill at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, Snowden would not validate Trump&#8217;s accusation that former President Barack Obama had &#8220;tapped&#8221; the wires at Trump Towers, but said the claim &#8211; which sent the White House backpedaling &#8211; shows Trump knows how serious mass surveillance is.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;If Donald Trump, or anyone else, wants us to take this seriously, they have to show evidence&#8221;, Snowden said. &#8220;And the fact that they have not despite the severity of this allegation, means that they&#8217;re trying to make political hay &#8211; I suspect &#8211; out of something that effects all of us, which is that mass surveillance is making all of us vulnerable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  He continued: &#8220;If Donald Trump wants to take this seriously, he needs to fix the problem that everyone in America&#8217;s communications are being collected right now, without a warrant, and they&#8217;re going into the bucket, and they&#8217;re protected by very lax internal policy regulations, and this simply is not enough.<\/p>\n<p>    The problem is not, &#8216;Oh, you know, poor Donald Trump&#8217;. He&#8217;s the president. He should be asking questions like: &#8216;Why was this possible in the first place&#8217; and &#8216;Why haven&#8217;t I fixed it?&#8217;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked for an extension to produce the wiretapping evidence after missing its deadline with the House Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n<p>    <strong><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n    <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    <strong>yogaesoteric<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    <strong>September 11, 2018&#160;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If President Donald Trump really cares about government spying, he should reform the National Security Agency&#8217;s (NSA) mass surveillance program, whistleblower Edward Snowden suggested.&#160; Speaking by video to The Intercept&#8217;s Jeremy Scahill at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, Snowden would not validate Trump&#8217;s accusation that former President Barack Obama had &#8220;tapped&#8221; the wires at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-descoperiti-manevrele-francmasoneriei-3480-ro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}