{"id":17356,"date":"2015-05-23T13:09:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T18:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17356"},"modified":"2015-05-23T13:27:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T18:27:56","slug":"the-hill-mcconnells-nsa-gambit-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17356","title":{"rendered":"The Hill: McConnell&#8217;s NSA gambit fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/243018-mcconnells-nsa-gambit-fails\">McConnell&#8217;s NSA gambit fails<\/a> by Jordain Carney and Julian Hattem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mitch McConnell staged an epic gamble over U.S. spying powers \u2014 and lost. <\/p>\n<p>The Republican leader pledged to keep senators in Washington through the weekend to finish work on expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, but Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called his bluff. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, when the smoke cleared in the early hours of Saturday morning, the 2016 presidential contender was the one with bragging rights.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Leaving the Capitol, Republicans seemed confused on what their leader\u2019s next steps would be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: McConnell&#8217;s NSA gambit fails by Jordain Carney and Julian Hattem: Mitch McConnell staged an epic gamble over U.S. spying powers \u2014 and lost. The Republican leader pledged to keep senators in Washington through the weekend to finish work &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17356\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17356","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17360,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17356\/revisions\/17360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}