{"id":2357,"date":"2015-12-01T22:49:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T04:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2015-12-13T22:12:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T04:12:13","slug":"why-the-cia-is-smearing-edward-snowden-after-the-paris-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2357","title":{"rendered":"Why the CIA is smearing Edward Snowden after the Paris attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Bodies were still lying in the streets of Paris when <a title=\"Central Intelligence Agency\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/politics-government\/central-intelligence-agency-ORGOV000009-topic.html\">CIA<\/a> operatives began exploiting the resulting fear and anger to advance long-standing political agendas. They and their congressional allies instantly attempted to heap blame for the atrocity not on <a title=\"Islamic State\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/unrest-conflicts-war\/islamic-state-ORCIG000120-topic.html\">Islamic State<\/a> but on several preexisting adversaries: Internet encryption, Silicon Valley&#8217;s privacy policies and <a title=\"Edward Snowden\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/crime-law-justice\/crime\/edward-snowden-PEOCVC000306-topic.html\">Edward Snowden<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-1126-greenwald-snowden-paris-encryption-20151126-story.html\">Glenn Greenwald: Why the CIA is smearing Edward Snowden after the Paris attacks &#8211; LA Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bodies were still lying in the streets of Paris when CIA operatives began exploiting the resulting fear and anger to advance long-standing political agendas. They and their congressional allies instantly attempted to heap blame for the atrocity not on Islamic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2357\">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":[213],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_events","tag-cia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","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=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions\/2360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}