{"id":28585,"date":"2012-07-15T11:01:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T17:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/americas-spies-the-cia-the-fbi-the-nsa-and-the-fda.html"},"modified":"2012-07-15T11:01:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T17:01:29","slug":"americas-spies-the-cia-the-fbi-the-nsa-and-the-fda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/americas-spies-the-cia-the-fbi-the-nsa-and-the-fda.html","title":{"rendered":"America&#39;s spies: the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, and &#8230; the FDA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lengthy and disturbing story on how the Food &amp; Drug Administration spied on the computers of its own scientists it suspected of whistleblowing and leaking information about faulty review processes on medical devices &#8212; which computer message monitoring included identified collections of mail sent to\u00a0congressional representatives, government staff, and even the President.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/15\/us\/fda-surveillance-of-scientists-spread-to-outside-critics.html?pagewanted=1&#038;smid=go-share'>F.D.A. Surveillance of Scientists Spread to Outside Critics<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Food and Drug Administration captured thousands of messages that disgruntled scientists sent privately to lawmakers, lawyers, journalists and even President Obama.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/EpMmn5b7VFi' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lengthy and disturbing story on how the Food &amp; Drug Administration spied on the computers of its own scientists it suspected of whistleblowing and leaking information about faulty review processes on medical devices &#8212; which computer message monitoring included identified collections of mail sent to\u00a0congressional representatives, government staff, and even the President. Embedded Link F.D.A. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/americas-spies-the-cia-the-fbi-the-nsa-and-the-fda.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;America&#39;s spies: the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, and &#8230; the FDA?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128456,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/28\/when-you-dont-like-the-numbers-attack-the-scientists-generating-them.html","url_meta":{"origin":28585,"position":0},"title":"When you don&#039;t like the numbers, attack the scientists generating them","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Oct-15 7:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because, you know, Big Climate Change Science is clearly behind NOAA's revision of climate change data. 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