{"id":2151,"date":"2013-06-26T00:15:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T00:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2013-06-26T00:15:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T00:15:21","slug":"demonizing-edward-snowden-which-side-are-you-on-the-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/26\/demonizing-edward-snowden-which-side-are-you-on-the-new-yorker\/","title":{"rendered":"Demonizing Edward Snowden: Which Side Are You On? : The New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What we do know is that, on this side of the Atlantic, efforts are being stepped up to demonize Snowden, and to delegitimize his claim to be a conscientious objector to the huge electronic-spying apparatus operated by the United States and the United Kingdom. \u201cThis is an individual who is not acting, in my opinion, with noble intent,\u201d General Keith Alexander, the head of the National Security Agency, told ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d on Sunday. \u201cWhat Snowden has revealed has caused irreversible and significant damage to our country and to our allies.\u201d Over on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation,\u201d Senator Dianne Feinstein, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said, \u201cI don\u2019t think this man is a whistle-blower\u2026 he could have stayed and faced the music. I don\u2019t think running is a noble thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/johncassidy\/2013\/06\/demonizing-edward-snowden-which-side-are-you-on.html?mobify=0\">Demonizing Edward Snowden: Which Side Are You On? : The New Yorker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we do know is that, on this side of the Atlantic, efforts are being stepped up to demonize Snowden, and to delegitimize his claim to be a conscientious objector to the huge electronic-spying apparatus operated by the United States and the United Kingdom. \u201cThis is an individual who is not acting, in my opinion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-yH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}