{"id":18597,"date":"2013-06-11T13:57:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T17:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=18597"},"modified":"2013-06-11T13:57:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T17:57:18","slug":"al-franken-on-nsa-revelations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=18597","title":{"rendered":"Al Franken on NSA Revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/blogs\/210862561.html'>StarTribune.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"I\u2019m on the Judiciary committee and the Judiciary committee has jurisdiction (over) N.S.A. and on (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) and the Patriot Act,\" he said. \"I availed myself of these briefings so nothing surprised me and the architecture of these programs I was very well aware of.\"<br \/>\n...<br \/>\n\"I think there should be enough transparency that the American people understand what is happening...But I can assure you that this isn\u2019t about spying on the American people.\"<br \/>\n...<br \/>\n\"There are certain things that are appropriate for me to know that\u2019s not appropriate for the bad guys to know,\" he said. \"Anything that quote the American people know, the bad guys know so there's a line here, right? And there's a balance that has to be struck between the responsibility of the federal government to protect the American people and then people\u2019s right to privacy. We have safeguards in place \u2026The American people can\u2019t know everything because everything they know then, the bad guys will know.\"<br \/>\n...<br \/>\n\"I have a high level of confidence, that it is used\u2026to protect us and I know that it has been successful in preventing terrorism,\" he said.<br \/>\n...<br \/>\n\"We haven\u2019t quite hit the exact balance we want to,\" he said. \"I have been for more transparency and I actually co-sponsored legislation to require the FISA court to release their opinions on why they\u2019ve decided the way they have.\"\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Al Franken seems like a fairly credible source, to me. Nothing I've ever read of his, or watched him do, makes him seem like the kind of person who wouldn't call BS if this was everything its critics are claiming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StarTribune.com: \"I\u2019m on the Judiciary committee and the Judiciary committee has jurisdiction (over) N.S.A. and on (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) and the Patriot Act,\" he said. \"I availed myself of these briefings so nothing surprised me and the architecture of these programs I was very well aware of.\" ... \"I think there should be enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}