{"id":197094,"date":"2008-03-02T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/02\/emptywheel-dont-cry-for-the-telcos-bush-cheney-are-the-only-ones-that-are-dying-for-immunity\/"},"modified":"2008-03-02T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T04:08:00","slug":"emptywheel-dont-cry-for-the-telcos-bush-cheney-are-the-only-ones-that-are-dying-for-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/02\/emptywheel-dont-cry-for-the-telcos-bush-cheney-are-the-only-ones-that-are-dying-for-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Emptywheel &#8211; \u00bb Don\u2019t Cry For The Telcos &#8211; Bush &#038; Cheney Are The Only Ones That Are Dying For Immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emptywheel at Firedoglake <a href=\"http:\/\/emptywheel.firedoglake.com\/2008\/02\/18\/dont-cry-for-the-telcos-bush-cheney-are-the-only-ones-that-are-dying-for-immunity\/\">makes a very good point<\/a>: The telcos doubtless had indemnity agreements, whereby the US government agreed to pay all judgments, so they are at no risk.<\/p>\n<p>The telco immunity is about Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>&#8482;<\/sup> trying to avoid any real scrutiny regarding their activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emptywheel at Firedoglake makes a very good point: The telcos doubtless had indemnity agreements, whereby the US government agreed to pay all judgments, so they are at no risk. The telco immunity is about Bush and His Evil Minions&#8482; trying to avoid any real scrutiny regarding their activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1067,970,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-communications","category-corruption","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197094"}],"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=197094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}