{"id":192360,"date":"2009-04-08T05:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/08\/obama-embraces-and-extends-bush-secrecy-fetish\/"},"modified":"2009-04-08T05:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T10:14:00","slug":"obama-embraces-and-extends-bush-secrecy-fetish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/08\/obama-embraces-and-extends-bush-secrecy-fetish\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Embraces and Extends Bush Secrecy Fetish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a response to the EFF&#8217;s lawsuit over illegal NSA wiretapping, the Obama has now responded with a claim for executive privilege that is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2009\/04\/06\/obama\/index.html\">more expansive than that of Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>&#038;trade<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Obama<\/span> DOJ, and this is their ruling, this is the first filing in the case, is saying that, &#8220;the Patriot Act bars all causes of action for any illegal surveillance in the absence of &#8220;willful disclosure.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Glenn Greenwald says in this analysius, &#8220;This is the Obama DOJ&#8217;s work and only its work, and it is equal to, and in some senses surpasses, the radical secrecy and immunity claims of the Bush administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lovely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a response to the EFF&#8217;s lawsuit over illegal NSA wiretapping, the Obama has now responded with a claim for executive privilege that is more expansive than that of Bush and His Evil Minions&#038;trade. Basically, the Obama DOJ, and this is their ruling, this is the first filing in the case, is saying that, &#8220;the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,972,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-justice","category-secrecy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192360"}],"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=192360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}