{"id":309430,"date":"2025-12-08T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=309430"},"modified":"2025-12-08T06:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:39:43","slug":"how-u-s-surveillance-state-expanded-and-thrived-despite-snowdens-revelations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/12\/how-u-s-surveillance-state-expanded-and-thrived-despite-snowdens-revelations\/","title":{"rendered":"How U.S. Surveillance State Expanded and Thrived Despite Snowden\u2019s Revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>5 Dec 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Glenn Answers Your Questions on Escalating War on Venezuela, an Un-American Candidate in TX, Trump&#8217;s Loyalty to Miriam Adelson\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Glenn Answers Your Questions on an Un-American Candidate in TX, Escalating War with Venezuela, Trump&amp;apos;s Loyalty to Miriam Adelson, and More | SYSTEM UPDATE #554\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v70gmxg\/#?secret=AZTnbdDsyy\" data-secret=\"AZTnbdDsyy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Glenn Greenwald, co-founder of <\/em>The Intercept<em>,\u00a0is a journalist, constitutional lawyer, and author of four <\/em>New York Times<em> best-selling books on politics and law. Greenwald broke the Snowden leaks in 2013 and currently hosts a political commentary show for <\/em>Rumble<em> called <\/em>System Update<em>. He is an animal fanatic &amp; founder of <\/em>HOPE Shelter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Dec 2025 &#8211; Glenn Answers Your Questions on Escalating War on Venezuela, an Un-American Candidate in TX, Trump&#8217;s Loyalty to Miriam Adelson\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[867,3143,2642,417,3572,1452,541,559,2341,1109,911,249,70,557],"class_list":["post-309430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-anglo-america","tag-anti-hegemony","tag-anti-imperialism","tag-bullying","tag-department-of-war","tag-edward-snowden","tag-latin-america-caribbean","tag-maduro","tag-national-security","tag-spying","tag-surveillance","tag-trump","tag-usa","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309432,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309430\/revisions\/309432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}