{"id":1346,"date":"2007-09-16T20:08:34","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T11:37:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T11:37:40","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1346","title":{"rendered":"Government claims new FISA law aided terrorist arrest, but not so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Times reports today that the government claims that the new FISA law, signed August 5th by President Bush that sunsets six months after adoption, led to the arrest of participants in a UK terrorist cell. A source, however, said that the old FISA law was used. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/11\/washington\/11terror.html?ei=5124&amp;en=4590d63324cee27f&amp;ex=1347249600&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink&amp;adxnnlx=1189528348-zY7l6QY9Hsnt\/+oEGtAc+g\">New U.S. Law Credited in Arrests Abroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What this means, even to the uninitiated, should be obvious: The President is priming the pump to remove the sunset provision. Congress adopted the new law because of a secret perceived threat. By keeping the threat alive indefinitely, the Administration apparently thinks that Congess will buy into unsunsetting it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1346\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}