{"id":1421,"date":"2013-08-20T12:30:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T17:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2013-08-20T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T17:30:24","slug":"guardian-bombshells-in-an-escalating-battle-against-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1421","title":{"rendered":"Guardian bombshells in an escalating battle against journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We have the spectacle of communications between two American journalists-in-exile\u2014reduced to passing information via courier because their government is spying on everything they do online\u2014busted up by the US\u2019s top ally, apparently with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/08\/19\/world\/europe\/greenwald-partner-detained\/?hpt=wo_c2\" target=\"_blank\">no protest <\/a>from the Obama administration, which was given a heads-up.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, Greenwald\u2019s paper has been threatened by its own government with prior restraint and had its hard drives smashed in its basement to make a (stupid) point.<\/p>\n<p>This is police-state stuff. We need to know the American government\u2019s role in these events\u2014and its stance on them\u2014sooner rather than later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/the_audit\/guardian_bombshells_in_an_esca.php\">Guardian bombshells in an escalating battle against journalism : Columbia Journalism Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have the spectacle of communications between two American journalists-in-exile\u2014reduced to passing information via courier because their government is spying on everything they do online\u2014busted up by the US\u2019s top ally, apparently with no protest from the Obama administration, which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1421\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_events","tag-nsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}