{"id":1700,"date":"2007-08-09T00:40:18","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T05:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2007\/08\/09\/1700\/"},"modified":"2007-08-09T00:41:28","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T05:41:28","slug":"1700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2007\/08\/09\/1700\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Sneakers<\/a>, my favorite heist movie, features some plot elements that involve the NSA. It came out in 1992, when that agency wasn’t particularly well-known–o halcyon days!–and so it has this little exchange between Robert Redford (“Martin Bishop”) and Timothy Busfield (“Dick Gordon”) to introduce it to the audience.<\/p>\n

\nBishop:<\/b> Sorry to waste your time, gentlemen. I don’t work for the government.
\nGordon:<\/b> We know. (Flashes ID)<\/i> National Security Agency.
\nBishop:<\/b> Oh, you’re the guys I hear breathing on the other end of my phone.
\nGordon:<\/b> No, that’s the FBI. We’re not chartered for domestic surveillance.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah ha ha ha ha!<\/a> Ha ha!<\/a> Ah ha ha ha ha.<\/a> Heh.<\/a><\/p>\n

\nBishop:<\/b> Oh, so you just overthrow governments–set up friendly dictators.
\nGordon:<\/b> (chuckling)<\/i> No, that’s the CIA. We protect our government’s communications–try and break the other fellas’ codes. We’re the good guys, Marty.
\nBishop:<\/b> Gee, I can’t tell you what a relief that is. Dick.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sneakers, my favorite heist movie, features some plot elements that involve the NSA. It came out in 1992, when that agency wasn’t particularly well-known–o halcyon days!–and so it has this little exchange between Robert Redford (“Martin Bishop”) and Timothy Busfield (“Dick Gordon”) to introduce it to the audience. Bishop: Sorry to waste your time, gentlemen. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,23,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kentucky","category-movies","category-paranoia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}