{"id":10148,"date":"2019-10-24T22:06:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T20:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10148"},"modified":"2019-10-24T22:06:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T20:06:26","slug":"from-russia-with-div","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/10148\/","title":{"rendered":"From Russia with div"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I listened to the Joe Rogan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=efs3QRr8LWw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">podcast<\/a> with Edward Snowden, the former NSA technician who blew the whistle on illegal US government mass surveillance programs.<\/p>\n<p>According to Snowden, Barrack Obama really only wanted to do what&#8217;s best for the country but the Deep State convinced him to maintain these programs in the interests of national security. Trump, meanwhile, has harnessed the intelligence community to go after groups he doesn&#8217;t like, and as such is much more dangerous than anyone.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is his lengthy exile in Russia has made him a little fond of the bathtub vodka. What other explanation is there for issuing dark warnings of the unaccountable power of rogue intelligence agencies but think they&#8217;ve been working on <em>behalf<\/em> of Trump? The man&#8217;s an idiot; I expect he was hoping Hillary would win, and then pardon him. She&#8217;d be more likely to pull the switch while he&#8217;s strapped in the chair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I listened to the Joe Rogan podcast with Edward Snowden, the former NSA technician who blew the whistle on illegal US government mass surveillance programs. According to Snowden, Barrack Obama really only wanted to do what&#8217;s best for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/10148\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10149,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148\/revisions\/10149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}