{"id":657,"date":"2005-12-21T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=657"},"modified":"2005-12-21T00:00:54","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T05:00:54","slug":"on-wiretaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"On Wiretaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/drewshi\/127063.html\">I saw this on John S. Drew&#8217;s LiveJournal<\/a>: &#8220;When you see this, post it.&#8221;  Which I&#8217;m doing. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires &#8212; <b>a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we&#8217;re talking about chasing down terrorists, we&#8217;re talking about getting a court order before we do so.<\/b>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was President Bush in April 2004, nearly three years after he authorized secret domestic surveillance by the National Security Agency without court orders or warrants.<\/p>\n<p>Quote courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/04\/20040420-2.html\">the transcript of Bush&#8217;s speech<\/a>, taken off the official White House site.<\/p>\n<p>The President says that wiretaps require a court order, that the law of the land requires a court order, and yet he doesn&#8217;t follow that.  The President&#8217;s rank hypocracy should concern <i>every<\/i> American, of every political affiliation.  If this at all concerns you, write your Congressman.  Write your Senators.  Write your local newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let this story fall into a memory hole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this on John S. Drew&#8217;s LiveJournal: &#8220;When you see this, post it.&#8221; Which I&#8217;m doing. \ud83d\ude42 &#8220;Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires &#8212; a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we&#8217;re talking about chasing down terrorists,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=657\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Wiretaps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[273,4108,1037],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-george-bush","tag-politics","tag-surveillance","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}