{"id":159053,"date":"2020-09-03T15:54:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T13:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/09\/03\/nsa-surveillance-exposed-by-snowden-was-illegal-court-rules-seven-years-on\/"},"modified":"2020-09-03T15:54:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T13:54:05","slug":"nsa-surveillance-exposed-by-snowden-was-illegal-court-rules-seven-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=159053","title":{"rendered":"NSA surveillance exposed by Snowden was illegal, court rules seven years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whistleblower revealed collection of phone records to GuardianCourt says officials who defended dragnet were not telling truthSeven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans\u2019 telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful \u2013 and that the US intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth. Related: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/sep\/03\/edward-snowden-nsa-surveillance-guardian-court-rules\" target=\"_blank\">NSA surveillance exposed by Snowden was illegal, court rules seven years on<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whistleblower revealed collection of phone records to GuardianCourt says officials who defended dragnet were not telling truthSeven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans\u2019 telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful \u2013 and that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}