{"id":17489,"date":"2015-05-30T15:13:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T20:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17489"},"modified":"2015-05-30T15:13:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T20:13:44","slug":"huffpo-rand-paul-vows-to-block-patriot-act-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17489","title":{"rendered":"HuffPo: Rand Paul Vows To Block Patriot Act Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/05\/30\/rand-paul-patriot-act_n_7475896.html\">Rand Paul Vows To Block Patriot Act Extension<\/a> by Sam Levine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on Saturday that he would block the Senate from passing an extension of the Patriot Act, which is set to expire at 12:01 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Forcing us to choose between our rights and our safety is a false choice and we are better than that as a nation and as a people,&#8221; Paul said in a statement Saturday that was first reported by Politico. &#8220;So tomorrow, I will force the expiration of the NSA illegal spy program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paul also opposes the USA Freedom Act, a bipartisan bill that passed the House. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo: Rand Paul Vows To Block Patriot Act Extension by Sam Levine: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on Saturday that he would block the Senate from passing an extension of the Patriot Act, which is set to expire at 12:01 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17489\">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-17489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17489","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=17489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17490,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17489\/revisions\/17490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}