{"id":394,"date":"2014-01-23T11:06:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T11:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=394"},"modified":"2014-01-23T11:06:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T11:06:11","slug":"julian-assange-we-heard-a-lot-of-lies-in-this-speech-by-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/julian-assange-2\/julian-assange-we-heard-a-lot-of-lies-in-this-speech-by-obama.php","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange: \u2018We Heard a Lot of Lies in This Speech by Obama\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    President    Obama laid out some reforms for NSA surveillance    programs today, but not everyone was impressed by it.    Julian    Assange reacted to Obamas speech on CNN and said    that the president was dragged kicking and screaming into    this debate in the first place, remarking that its    embarrassing for a head of state to go on for 45 minutes like    that and say almost nothing.  <\/p>\n<p>    Assange insisted that Obama would not have made that speech    today were it not for the actions of Edward Snowden, yet the    reforms he proposed are rather weak and simply deferrals to    Congress and review boards. He went off on the secrecy of the    FISA court and expressed his dismay with the lack of any    meaningful protection for U.S. business.  <\/p>\n<p>    But Assange then charged, We heard a lot of lies in this    speech by Obama. As an example, he pointed to the president    saying there has been no abuse by the NSA, which has already been demonstrated to be incorrect.  <\/p>\n<p>    Watch the video below, via CNN:  <\/p>\n<p>    [photo via screengrab]  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>    Follow Josh Feldman on Twitter: @feldmaniac  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Continued here:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/julian-assange-\u2018we-heard-a-lot-of-lies-in-this-speech-by-obama\u2019\/\" title=\"Julian Assange: \u2018We Heard a Lot of Lies in This Speech by Obama\u2019\">Julian Assange: \u2018We Heard a Lot of Lies in This Speech by Obama\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> President Obama laid out some reforms for NSA surveillance programs today, but not everyone was impressed by it. Julian Assange reacted to Obamas speech on CNN and said that the president was dragged kicking and screaming into this debate in the first place, remarking that its embarrassing for a head of state to go on for 45 minutes like that and say almost nothing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1599],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-julian-assange-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}