{"id":5227,"date":"2013-06-27T05:41:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T11:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5227"},"modified":"2013-06-27T05:41:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T11:41:18","slug":"memories-of-stasi-color-germans%e2%80%99-view-of-u-s-surveillance-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5227","title":{"rendered":"Memories of Stasi color Germans\u2019 view of U.S. surveillance programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2013\/06\/26\/195045\/memories-of-stasi-color-germans.html#.Ucwkcki9LCS\">Matthew Schofield<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wolfgang Schmidt was seated in Berlin\u2019s 1,200-foot-high TV tower, one of the few remaining landmarks left from the former East Germany. Peering out over the city that lived in fear when the communist party ruled it, he pondered the magnitude of domestic spying in the United States under the Obama administration. A smile spread across his face.<br \/>\n\u201cYou know, for us, this would have been a dream come true,\u201d he said, recalling the days when he was a lieutenant colonel in the defunct communist country\u2019s secret police, the Stasi.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2013\/06\/26\/195045\/memories-of-stasi-color-germans.html#.Ucwg81W9LCR#storylink=cpy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Schofield: Wolfgang Schmidt was seated in Berlin\u2019s 1,200-foot-high TV tower, one of the few remaining landmarks left from the former East Germany. Peering out over the city that lived in fear when the communist party ruled it, he pondered the magnitude of domestic spying in the United States under the Obama administration. A smile [&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\/5227"}],"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=5227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}