{"id":3349,"date":"2015-04-29T02:46:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T02:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/01\/17\/the-excuses-are-coming-the-excuses-are-coming-obama-invokes-paul-revere-in-nsaspeech\/"},"modified":"2015-04-29T02:46:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T02:46:53","slug":"the-excuses-are-coming-obama-invokes-paul-revere-in-nsaspeech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/3349","title":{"rendered":"‘The excuses are coming!’ Obama invokes Paul Revere in NSA speech"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/joshbranson\/status\/424214022255173632\n

During his opening remarks today about NSA surveillance, President Obama mentioned Paul Revere as a positive example of spying:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/BenjySarlin\/status\/424214039091482625\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/gp_sarahwolfe\/status\/424214225901219841\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/hollyR_J_N\/status\/424214100776722432\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/valkenburgh\/status\/424215520918130688\n

Important points of order:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/zenalbatross\/status\/424216143981985792\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jmadelman\/status\/424219255937064960

Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/01\/17\/the-excuses-are-coming-the-excuses-are-coming-obama-invokes-paul-revere-in-nsaspeech\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/joshbranson\/status\/424214022255173632 During his opening remarks today about NSA surveillance, President Obama mentioned Paul Revere as a positive example of spying: http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/BenjySarlin\/status\/424214039091482625 http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/gp_sarahwolfe\/status\/424214225901219841 http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/hollyR_J_N\/status\/424214100776722432 http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/valkenburgh\/status\/424215520918130688 Important points of order: http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/zenalbatross\/status\/424216143981985792 http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jmadelman\/status\/424219255937064960Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/01\/17\/the-excuses-are-coming-the-excuses-are-coming-obama-invokes-paul-revere-in-nsaspeech\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[158],"tags":[231,1948],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-government","tag-obama","tag-paul-revere"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/143019282579-obamansa.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}