{"id":22310,"date":"2013-11-11T06:50:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T14:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=22310"},"modified":"2013-11-11T06:50:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T14:50:04","slug":"former-nsa-chief-i-cant-prove-any-harm-to-national-security-from-snowden-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/11\/former-nsa-chief-i-cant-prove-any-harm-to-national-security-from-snowden-leaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NSA Chief: I Can&#8217;t Prove Any Harm to National Security From Snowden Leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The public editor at the <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/10\/public-editor\/sullivan-lessons-in-a-surveillance-drama-redux.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=0\">reported<\/a> the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Former director of the NSA Michael] Hayden told me that he can\u2019t prove any harm to national security from the publication of the eavesdropping stories&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That must have been when he wasn&#8217;t toeing the line about how much damage Snowden&#8217;s leaks have done:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KpfwjI9Eqy4?version=3&amp;start=150&amp;end=202&amp;autoplay=0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;loop=0&amp;playlist=KpfwjI9Eqy4\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public editor at the New York Times reported the following: [Former director of the NSA Michael] Hayden told me that he can\u2019t prove any harm to national security from the publication of the eavesdropping stories&#8230; That must have been when he wasn&#8217;t toeing the line about how much damage Snowden&#8217;s leaks have done:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-22310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22312,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22310\/revisions\/22312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22310"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}