{"id":23646,"date":"2013-06-18T21:39:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T21:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=83f5da9bc3da1f4e082f96d0d6da7588"},"modified":"2013-06-18T21:39:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T21:39:13","slug":"clearing-the-fog-on-the-nsa-spying-and-the-myth-of-national-security-with-thomas-drake-and-fred-branfman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2013\/06\/18\/clearing-the-fog-on-the-nsa-spying-and-the-myth-of-national-security-with-thomas-drake-and-fred-branfman\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing the FOG on the NSA, Spying and the Myth of National Security with Thomas Drake and Fred Branfman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We explore the extent of surveillance by the United States. Why is there so much surveillance and is the increasing surveillance of people in the United States justified? We discuss which is more harmful to our society, leaks or the policies that are leaked.\u00a0Our first guest is\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/video\/2013\/06\/11\/reuters-tv-ex-nsa-official-on-snowden-and-the-us-sp?&videoChannel=117850&videoId=243280464\"  style=\"color: #1772af; text-decoration: none;\">Thomas Drake<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>who was prosecuted for allegedly disclosing National Security Agency secrets years before Edward Snowden surfaced. Drake says the U.S. government has an \u201cindustrial-scale\u201d surveillance system that \u201cthe Stasi in East Germany would have drooled over.\u201d Then Fred\u00a0Branfman, who recently wrote \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/executive-branch-threatens-us-national-security\"  style=\"color: #1772af; text-decoration: none;\">America\u2019s Most Anti-Democratic Institution: How the Imperial Presidency Threatens U.S. National Security<\/a>,\u201d is our guest. He argues, \u00a0\u201dAnd today\u2019s U.S. executive branch policies pose an even greater long-term threat to U.S. strategic interests, not only abroad but at home. The evidence is overwhelming, including the statements by several dozen U.S. national security experts cited at the end of my recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/executive-branch-threatens-us-national-security\"  style=\"color: #1772af; text-decoration: none;\">piece<\/a>, that U.S. leaders are not protecting national security but rather weakening it as never before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/clearingthefogradioshow.libsyn.com\/clearing-the-fog-on-the-nsa-spying-and-the-myth-of-national-security-with-thomas-drake-and-fred-branfman\">Clearing the FOG with co-hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We explore the extent of surveillance by the United States. Why is there so much surveillance and is the increasing surveillance of people in the United States justified? We discuss which is more harmful to our society, leaks or the policies that are l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23647,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646\/revisions\/23647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}