{"id":197526,"date":"2008-01-28T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/28\/bush-threatens-veto-on-fisa-extension-reid-calls-him-shamefully-irresponsible\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T00:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T05:07:00","slug":"bush-threatens-veto-on-fisa-extension-reid-calls-him-shamefully-irresponsible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/28\/bush-threatens-veto-on-fisa-extension-reid-calls-him-shamefully-irresponsible\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Threatens Veto on FISA Extension, Reid Calls Him &#8220;Shamefully Irresponsible&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush is ratcheting up the rhetoric on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0108\/8117.html\">&#8220;give the phone companies a blow job&#8221; version of the FISA update<\/a>, and Harry Reid is pushing back.<\/p>\n<p>Bush is threatening a veto of an extension of the so called &#8220;Protect America Act&#8221;, because, even though it protects phone companies for current warrantless domestic spying, it does not indemnify them for prior spying, some of which began in <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">February 2001<\/span>, more than 7 months before 911.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be clear.  Indemnification is not about getting phone companies to cooperate.  It is about helping phone companies conceal the details of this activity, so that Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>&#8482;<\/sup> will never face legal consequences of their law breaking.<\/p>\n<p>Well, $%#@ that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush is ratcheting up the rhetoric on the &#8220;give the phone companies a blow job&#8221; version of the FISA update, and Harry Reid is pushing back. Bush is threatening a veto of an extension of the so called &#8220;Protect America Act&#8221;, because, even though it protects phone companies for current warrantless domestic spying, it does &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,998,970,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-congress","category-corruption","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197526"}],"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=197526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}