{"id":40761,"date":"2019-11-21T16:53:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T21:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=40761"},"modified":"2019-11-21T16:53:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T21:53:12","slug":"reason-giving-government-vast-snooping-authority-is-one-thing-democrats-and-republicans-both-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=40761","title":{"rendered":"Reason: Giving Government Vast Snooping Authority Is One Thing Democrats and Republicans Both Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reason: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2019\/11\/20\/giving-government-vast-snooping-authority-is-one-thing-democrats-and-republicans-both-like\/\">Giving Government Vast Snooping Authority Is One Thing Democrats and Republicans Both Like<\/a> by J.D. Tuccille (&#8220;&#8216;The USA PATRIOT Act broadly expands law enforcement&#8217;s surveillance and investigative powers and represents one of the most significant threats to civil liberties, privacy, and democratic traditions in US history,\u2019 notes the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The law &#8216;eliminates checks and balances that previously gave courts the opportunity to ensure that those powers were not abused,&#8217; the group adds.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason: Giving Government Vast Snooping Authority Is One Thing Democrats and Republicans Both Like by J.D. Tuccille (&#8220;&#8216;The USA PATRIOT Act broadly expands law enforcement&#8217;s surveillance and investigative powers and represents one of the most significant threats to civil liberties, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=40761\">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":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40761","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=40761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40762,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40761\/revisions\/40762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}