{"id":194036,"date":"2008-10-30T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/30\/nsa-ignores-congress-classifies-wiretap-report\/"},"modified":"2008-10-30T05:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T10:04:00","slug":"nsa-ignores-congress-classifies-wiretap-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/30\/nsa-ignores-congress-classifies-wiretap-report\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA Ignores Congress, Classifies Wiretap Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/165235\">such a surprise<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#000099;\">When Congress passed a landmark electronic-spying bill last summer, the measure included a key provision that ordered the inspectors general of U.S. intelligence agencies to produce the first-ever public report on President Bush&#8217;s warrantless-surveillance program.<\/p>\n<p>The report isn&#8217;t due until next July\u2014long after Bush leaves office. But when the inspectors general recently submitted their first &#8220;interim&#8221; report to Congress under the measure, it wasn&#8217;t made public. Instead, the brief document, written by CIA inspector general John Helgerson, was marked classified\u2014a move that has drawn a stiff protest from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since when do Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> ever feel the need to obey the law?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is such a surprise: When Congress passed a landmark electronic-spying bill last summer, the measure included a key provision that ordered the inspectors general of U.S. intelligence agencies to produce the first-ever public report on President Bush&#8217;s warrantless-surveillance program. The report isn&#8217;t due until next July\u2014long after Bush leaves office. But when the inspectors &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1067,1062,1102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-communications","category-espionage","category-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194036"}],"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=194036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}