{"id":197185,"date":"2008-02-25T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/25\/bush-and-his-evil-minions-say-that-telcos-will-not-cooperate-with-surveillance-requests-except-of-course-they-are-cooperating\/"},"modified":"2008-02-25T00:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T05:10:00","slug":"bush-and-his-evil-minions-say-that-telcos-will-not-cooperate-with-surveillance-requests-except-of-course-they-are-cooperating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/25\/bush-and-his-evil-minions-say-that-telcos-will-not-cooperate-with-surveillance-requests-except-of-course-they-are-cooperating\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122 Say that Telcos Will Not Cooperate with Surveillance Requests&#8230;Except, of Course They Are Cooperating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, McConnell and Mukasey are at it again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/02\/22\/AR2008022202859.html\">claiming that intelligence is being lost because there is no Telco Immunity<\/a>, except of course for this:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>But hours later, administration officials told lawmakers that the final holdout among the companies had relented and agreed to fully participate in the surveillance program, according to an official familiar with the issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Telcos broke the law and surveilled people without warrants, startinb <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">7 months before 9-11<\/span>, and they would <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">like<\/span> to be excused, but it is <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">not<\/span> stopping them from cooperating new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, McConnell and Mukasey are at it again claiming that intelligence is being lost because there is no Telco Immunity, except of course for this: But hours later, administration officials told lawmakers that the final holdout among the companies had relented and agreed to fully participate in the surveillance program, according to an official familiar &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1067,970,1102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-communications","category-corruption","category-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197185"}],"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=197185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}