{"id":192295,"date":"2009-04-19T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/19\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-they-wanted-to-wiretap-a-congressman-without-a-warrant\/"},"modified":"2009-04-19T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T00:14:00","slug":"whiskey-tango-foxtrot-they-wanted-to-wiretap-a-congressman-without-a-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/19\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-they-wanted-to-wiretap-a-congressman-without-a-warrant\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot??? They Wanted to Wiretap a Congressman Without a Warrant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we are seeing new revelations about the NSA warrantless spying program, and  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/16\/us\/16nsa.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">this one is a doozy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>While the N.S.A.\u2019s operations in recent months have come under examination, new details are also emerging about earlier domestic-surveillance activities, including the agency\u2019s <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;\" >attempt to wiretap a member of Congress, without court approval<\/span>, on an overseas trip, current and former intelligence officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>Great googly moogly!<\/p>\n<p>This is why it needs to be pursued, and people need to be prosecuted, because this was not some sort of intelligence gathering operation, it was one of Dick Cheney&#8217;s moles trying to wiretap someone for political advantage.<\/p>\n<p>The people who did this need to be rooted out, and have their clearances stripped, and senior folks who <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">authorized<\/span> this need to go to jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we are seeing new revelations about the NSA warrantless spying program, and this one is a doozy: While the N.S.A.\u2019s operations in recent months have come under examination, new details are also emerging about earlier domestic-surveillance activities, including the agency\u2019s attempt to wiretap a member of Congress, without court approval, on an overseas trip, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,970,1102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-corruption","category-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}