{"id":51349,"date":"2015-06-03T06:05:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T06:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/03\/as-usual-the-onion-hits-disturbingly-close-to-home-nsa-edition.html"},"modified":"2015-06-03T06:05:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T06:05:24","slug":"as-usual-the-onion-hits-disturbingly-close-to-home-nsa-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/03\/as-usual-the-onion-hits-disturbingly-close-to-home-nsa-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"As usual, &quot;The Onion&quot; hits disturbingly close to home (NSA Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s times like these that I want to Fast-Forward 50 years hence and see what&#39;s happened (and what was actually happening).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/frustrated-nsa-now-forced-rely-mass-surveillance-p-50550'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/1N3AGBiqIquebk1HOAwDwYq_oSG92Cn4uoRh-c_QYa0vEMBelEh6BP2Zz_IDd4JNl2FpNkiUOcedNYq96Rirg6NTZg=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/frustrated-nsa-now-forced-rely-mass-surveillance-p-50550'>Frustrated NSA Now Forced To Rely On Mass Surveillance Programs That Haven&rsquo;t Come To Light Yet<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nFORT MEADE, MD&mdash;Expressing frustration over Congress&rsquo; decision to let the provisions allowing the bulk collection of phone data expire, annoyed National Security Agency officials reported Monday that the organization would now be forced to rely exclusively on mass surveillance programs that have yet to come to light.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/NqCZjsRjnYv'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s times like these that I want to Fast-Forward 50 years hence and see what&#39;s happened (and what was actually happening). Frustrated NSA Now Forced To Rely On Mass Surveillance Programs That Haven&rsquo;t Come To Light Yet FORT MEADE, MD&mdash;Expressing frustration over Congress&rsquo; decision to let the provisions allowing the bulk collection of phone data &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/03\/as-usual-the-onion-hits-disturbingly-close-to-home-nsa-edition.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;As usual, &quot;The Onion&quot; hits disturbingly close to home (NSA Edition)&#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_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51349","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":38310,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/17\/the-law-is-not-good-with-fuzziness.html","url_meta":{"origin":51349,"position":0},"title":"The law is not good with fuzziness","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-Jul-13 10:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"People tend to think of the law as ... well ... black and white. \u00a0Something is illegal, or it is not. \u00a0Or some act is a crime, some item is a weapon of mass destruction, some person is a terrorist ... or not.But definitions are fuzzy things, especially when you\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39439,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/31\/what-you-dont-know-cant-hurt-you-security-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":51349,"position":1},"title":"What You Don&#39;t Know Can&#39;t Hurt You (Security Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 31-Oct-13 6:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"'You can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy is violated.'So says the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Rogers. \u00a0You may laugh (I certainly did), but that's not all that different from court rulings about \"standing\" -- SCOTUS has repeatedly thrown out suits against security\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128241,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/06\/an-eu-court-shoots-a-hole-in-safe-harbor-data-sharing.html","url_meta":{"origin":51349,"position":2},"title":"An EU Court shoots a hole in &quot;safe harbor&quot; data sharing","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Oct-15 7:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Thanks, Obama! 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