{"id":30822,"date":"2017-12-20T20:04:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T01:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=30822"},"modified":"2017-12-20T20:04:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T01:04:23","slug":"cato-fisa-reform-the-surveillance-fear-mongering-campaign-ramps-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=30822","title":{"rendered":"Cato: FISA \u201cReform\u201d: The Surveillance Fear Mongering Campaign Ramps Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cato: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/fisa-reform-surveillance-fear-mongering-campaign-ramps\">FISA \u201cReform\u201d: The Surveillance Fear Mongering Campaign Ramps Up<\/a> by Patrick G. Eddington:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The House GOP leadership must be at least somewhat worried about the prospects for passage of their Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act (FAA) Sec. 702 bill, HR 4478, which the House Rules Committee will consider later today in an \u201cemergency\u201d session.<\/p>\n<p>I say this because this morning, the House GOP leadership circulated a wanted poster-style flyer of a dead man: Haji Iman, the alleged ISIS deputy finance minister and second in command to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed in eastern Syria on March 25, 2016. The flyer puts the phrase \u201cISIS\u201d in a huge font, just in case the reader wasn\u2019t getting the message.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cato: FISA \u201cReform\u201d: The Surveillance Fear Mongering Campaign Ramps Up by Patrick G. Eddington:<\/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-30822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30822","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=30822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30823,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30822\/revisions\/30823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}