{"id":8971,"date":"2013-08-12T12:02:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T12:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8971"},"modified":"2013-08-12T12:02:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T12:02:08","slug":"ed-snowden-is-jason-bourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8971","title":{"rendered":"‘Ed Snowden is Jason Bourne’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A deep distrust of government has led young Americans to hold up NSA leaker Edward Snowden as a hero, Sen. John McCain said Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a young generation who believes he\u2019s some kind of Jason Bourne,\u201d the Arizona Republican said during on \u201cFox News Sunday,\u201d referring to the lead character in the Bourne movie trilogy who battled his own government, particularly the CIA.<\/p>\n

Mr. Snowden\u2019s revelations \u2014 including details of the National Security Agency\u2019s data-collection efforts \u2014 have led to a debate on the national security vs. privacy question, and how to balance the two.<\/p>\n

President Obama last week laid out a series of proposed reforms to government spying programs in an effort to reassure Americans that their Fourth Amendment rights aren\u2019t being trampled. His proposals include having a privacy advocate argue against the federal government in court, more restrictions on the mass collection of phone records and other steps.<\/p>\n

Mr. McCain, a widely respected figure on national security and his party\u2019s 2008 presidential nominee, said the White House\u2019s recommendations could be beneficial.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s a deeper problem that must be addressed, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now there\u2019s kind of a generational change. Young Americans do not trust this government,\u201d Mr. McCain said. \u201cWithout trusting government you can\u2019t do a lot of things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Snowden now has been granted asylum in Russia in another blow to relations between the U.S. and its old Cold War foe. – Washington Times<\/p>\n

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A deep distrust of government has led young Americans to hold up NSA leaker Edward Snowden as a hero, Sen. John McCain said Sunday. \u201cThere\u2019s a young generation who believes he\u2019s some kind of Jason Bourne,\u201d the Arizona Republican said during on \u201cFox News Sunday,\u201d referring to the lead character in the Bourne movie trilogy … Continue reading “‘Ed Snowden is Jason Bourne’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,3,10,123],"tags":[1235,3053,5036,3030,5037,3355,2913],"class_list":["post-8971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-news","category-united-states","category-world","tag-cia","tag-ed-snowden","tag-jason-bourne","tag-nsa","tag-sen-john-mccain","tag-surveillance","tag-warrantless-domestic-surveillance"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/jasonbourne.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8973,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions\/8973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}