{"id":232,"date":"2006-05-15T14:59:17","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T19:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2006-07-19T15:52:06","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T20:52:06","slug":"gotch-yer-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Gotch yer number?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard an interesting and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5405608\">partly reassuring conversation<\/a> on NPR this afternoon. The USA Today reporter who had broken the NSA phone record story as well as retired Admiral <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cna.org\/about\/leadership\/board\/inman.aspx\">Bobby Ray Inman<\/a>. Inman was once the Director of the National Security Agency. My recollection is that he was working hard on developing the NSA&#8217;s computers.<\/p>\n<p>Inman\u00c2\u00a0agreed that\u00c2\u00a0it was troubling that the Bush Administration seemed to be so unwilling to seek Congress&#8217;s help in crafting some sensible restrictions on the NSA&#8217;s intelligence gathering of phone calls. On the other hand, he said the ability of the NSA to keep track of conversations was all but nonexistant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard an interesting and partly reassuring conversation on NPR this afternoon. The USA Today reporter who had broken the NSA phone record story&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bush-leagues","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}