{"id":904,"date":"2014-01-26T02:42:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T07:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=904"},"modified":"2014-01-26T02:42:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T07:42:49","slug":"republican-party-condemns-nsa-spying-on-americans-after-supporting-it-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/nsa-spying\/republican-party-condemns-nsa-spying-on-americans-after-supporting-it-for-years.php","title":{"rendered":"Republican Party Condemns NSA Spying on Americans, After Supporting It for Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    The Republican Party has stood behind the NSA's spying ever    since President George W. Bush signed the Patriot Act in 2001,    which legalized NSA surveillance on Americans without a    warrant.  <\/p>\n<p>    According to     Time, the Republican National Committee (RNC) voted    today at their annual winter meeting to pass a Resolution To    Renounce The National Security Agencys Surveillance Program.  <\/p>\n<p>    Ironically,     several     Republicans have called NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden a        \"traitor\" for revealing the same NSA programs that they    renounced today.  <\/p>\n<p>    When the     New York Times first reported about NSA spying program    under President Bush in 2005, Republicans voiced no opposition.  <\/p>\n<p>        MSNBC reports that the RNC now wants an amendment to    Section 215 of the Patriot Act to \"make it clear that blanket    surveillance of the Internet activity, phone records and    correspondence  electronic, physical, and otherwise  of any    person residing in the US is prohibited by law.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    Sources:     New York Times,     MSNBC,     Time,     The Atlantic,     Politico.com,     The Hill  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>View post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opposingviews.com\/i\/politics\/foreign-policy\/war-terror\/republican-party-condemns-nsa-spying-americans-after-supporting\" title=\"Republican Party Condemns NSA Spying on Americans, After Supporting It for Years\">Republican Party Condemns NSA Spying on Americans, After Supporting It for Years<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Republican Party has stood behind the NSA's spying ever since President George W. Bush signed the Patriot Act in 2001, which legalized NSA surveillance on Americans without a warrant. According to Time, the Republican National Committee (RNC) voted today at their annual winter meeting to pass a Resolution To Renounce The National Security Agencys Surveillance Program. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nsa-spying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904"}],"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=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}