{"id":1586,"date":"2013-12-16T17:11:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T23:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2013-12-16T17:11:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T23:11:44","slug":"nsa-goes-on-60-minutes-the-definitive-facts-behind-cbss-flawed-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1586","title":{"rendered":"NSA goes on 60 Minutes: the definitive facts behind CBS&#8217;s flawed report"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But mixed in among the dramatic footage of Alexander receiving threat briefings and junior analysts solving Rubik\u2019s cubes in 90 seconds were a number of dubious claims: from the extent of surveillance to collecting on Google and Yahoo data centers to an online \u201ckill-switch\u201d for the global financial system developed by China.<\/p>\n<p>Reporter <strong>John Miller, a former official with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence<\/strong> and an ex-FBI spokesman, allowed these claims to go unchallenged. The Guardian, not so much. Here\u2019s our take:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/dec\/16\/nsa-surveillance-60-minutes-cbs-facts\">NSA goes on 60 Minutes: the definitive facts behind CBS&#8217;s flawed report | World news | theguardian.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But mixed in among the dramatic footage of Alexander receiving threat briefings and junior analysts solving Rubik\u2019s cubes in 90 seconds were a number of dubious claims: from the extent of surveillance to collecting on Google and Yahoo data centers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1586\">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":[160,155,147],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_events","tag-fact-check","tag-journalism","tag-nsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","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=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}