{"id":23366,"date":"2013-08-08T16:23:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T20:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23366"},"modified":"2013-08-08T16:23:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T20:23:59","slug":"pres-obama-on-tonight-show-terror-threat-requires-every-precaution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23366","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Obama On \u2018Tonight Show\u2019: Terror Threat Requires \u2018Every Precaution\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BURBANK, CA \u2014 <b>President Barack Obama<\/b> said Tuesday that he was \u201cdisappointed\u201d that Russia had granted temporary asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, defying <b>Obama<\/b>\u00a0administration demands that the former government contractor be sent back to the U. S. to face espionage charges. <b>Pres. Obama<\/b>, in his first comments about Snowden since Russia\u2019s decision last week, said the move reflected the \u201cunderlying challenges\u201d he faces in dealing with Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been times where they slip back into Cold War thinking and a Cold War mentality.\u201d<b> Snowden<\/b>, an ex-NSA systems analyst, is accused of leaking details about highly-secretive government surveillance programs. He spent several weeks in the transit zone of a Moscow airport before being granted asylum for a year. Russia\u2019s decision has pushed the White House to reconsider <b>Pres. Obama\u2019s <\/b>plans to travel to Russia in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BURBANK, CA \u2014 President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he was \u201cdisappointed\u201d that Russia had granted temporary asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, defying Obama\u00a0administration demands that the former government contractor be sent back to the U. S. to face espionage charges. Pres. Obama, in his first comments about Snowden since Russia\u2019s decision [&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-23366","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\/23366","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=23366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}