{"id":21890,"date":"2013-06-13T16:21:51","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T20:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21890"},"modified":"2013-06-13T16:21:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T20:21:51","slug":"house-speaker-john-boehner-calls-nsa-snitch-a-traitor-over-government-spying-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21890","title":{"rendered":"House Speaker John Boehner Calls NSA Snitch A &#8220;Traitor&#8221; Over Government Spying Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Americans still skeptical about the National Security Agency&#8217;s phone record monitoring, House <strong>Speaker John Boehner<\/strong>\u00a0 spoke with <em>ABC News<\/em>\u00a0 to call the whistleblower a \u201ctraitor.\u201d The most powerful Republican in Washington had an exclusive interview Tuesday (June 11) where he was pressed about the IRS scandal, immigration reform, and <strong>Edward Snowden<\/strong> and the Verizon Wireless phone records being leaked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boehner<\/strong> had some tough words saying that <strong>Snowden&#8217;s<\/strong>, who leaked the report, categorizing his actions as a \u201cgiant violation of the law.\u201d\u00a0 He also believes that <strong>Snowden&#8217;s<\/strong> reveal of the national security information puts American&#8217;s at risk. \u201cHe&#8217;s a traitor. The president outlined last week that these are important national security programs to help keep Americans safe and give us tools to help fight the terrorist threat we face,\u201d Boehner said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Americans still skeptical about the National Security Agency&#8217;s phone record monitoring, House Speaker John Boehner\u00a0 spoke with ABC News\u00a0 to call the whistleblower a \u201ctraitor.\u201d The most powerful Republican in Washington had an exclusive interview Tuesday (June 11) where he was pressed about the IRS scandal, immigration reform, and Edward Snowden and the Verizon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}