{"id":5202,"date":"2013-06-14T08:19:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T14:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5202"},"modified":"2013-06-14T08:19:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T14:19:23","slug":"on-partisanship-propaganda-and-prism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5202","title":{"rendered":"On partisanship, propaganda and PRISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2013\/jun\/14\/nsa-partisanship-propaganda-prism\">Glenn Greenwald<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I haven&#8217;t been able to write this week here because I&#8217;ve been participating in the debate over the fallout from last week&#8217;s NSA stories, and because we are very busy working on and writing the next series of stories that will begin appearing very shortly. I did, though, want to note a few points, and particularly highlight what Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez said after Congress on Wednesday was given a classified briefing by NSA officials on the agency&#8217;s previously secret surveillance activities:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What we learned in there is significantly more than what is out in the media today. . . . I can&#8217;t speak to what we learned in there, and I don&#8217;t know if there are other leaks, if there&#8217;s more information somewhere, if somebody else is going to step up, but I will tell you that I believe it&#8217;s the tip of the iceberg . . . . I think it&#8217;s just broader than most people even realize, and I think that&#8217;s, in one way, what astounded most of us, too.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Congresswoman is absolutely right: what we have reported thus far is merely &#8220;the tip of the iceberg&#8221; of what the NSA is doing in spying on Americans and the world. She&#8217;s also right that when it comes to NSA spying, &#8220;there is significantly more than what is out in the media today&#8221;, and that&#8217;s exactly what we&#8217;re working to rectify.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Greenwald: I haven&#8217;t been able to write this week here because I&#8217;ve been participating in the debate over the fallout from last week&#8217;s NSA stories, and because we are very busy working on and writing the next series of stories that will begin appearing very shortly. I did, though, want to note a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}