{"id":197602,"date":"2008-01-23T06:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/fisa-bill-in-limbo\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T06:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T11:14:00","slug":"fisa-bill-in-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/fisa-bill-in-limbo\/","title":{"rendered":"FISA Bill in Limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Reid<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/005116.php\">wants a one mongh extension to the <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">disgraceful<\/span> &#8220;Protect America Act&#8221;<\/a>, so that they can have time to work on the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, the Republicans are going with an all or nothing approch, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/blogzone\/dc-download\/dc-download\/2008\/01\/bond-wants-intelligence-bill\/\">Kit Bond<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5hJKgeE0Z-SivATjok-utYBdh9wDwD8UB81P01\">Mitch McConnell<\/a> blocking the extension in an attempt to give Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>&#8482;<\/sup> everything that they want.<\/p>\n<p>Um&#8230;.Guys, this is a clue&#8230;.In 11&frac12; months Hillary and Her Evil Minions<sup>&#8482;<\/sup>, or Barack and His Evil Minions<sup>&#8482;<\/sup> may have the reins of the state security apparatus, and one of the things that I like about her is that, unlike Bill, she appears to have an inclination for vengeance.<\/p>\n<p>You <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">don&#8217;t<\/span> want to go there.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, the case for the changes provided by Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell has proven to be completely fraudulent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Reidwants a one mongh extension to the disgraceful &#8220;Protect America Act&#8221;, so that they can have time to work on the bill. Once again, the Republicans are going with an all or nothing approch, with Kit Bond and Mitch McConnell blocking the extension in an attempt to give Bush and His Evil Minions&#8482; everything &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1102,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-intelligence","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197602"}],"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=197602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}