{"id":5938,"date":"2011-08-26T00:42:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T00:41:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T00:41:55","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5938","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Why are we subverting the Constitution in the name of security?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo opinions: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-are-we-subverting-the-constitution-in-the-name-of-security\/2011\/08\/25\/gIQANnrheJ_story.html\">Why are we subverting the Constitution in the name of security?<\/a> by Thomas Drake, Thursday, August 25:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Justice Department\u2019s high-profile Espionage Act case against me collapsed on July 15, with all 10 felony charges dropped, when I was sentenced to community service after entering into a plea agreement for a minor misdemeanor. During the sentencing hearing, the judge clearly set the tone for holding the executive branch of our government accountable. He expounded on the judicial branch\u2019s role as final arbiter of the law, while noting that the basis for the American Revolution was British tyranny in the colonial era.<\/p>\n<p>Over more than a year, my case became a disturbing illustration of \u201coff the books,\u201d irresponsible government behavior that is increasingly alien to the Constitution. The government\u2019s penchant since Sept. 11, 2001, for operating in secrecy and hiding behind an executive branch \u201cstate secrets\u201d doctrine has damaged our long-term national security and national character. It has, by sacrificing Americans\u2019 general welfare and civil liberties, given rise to a persistent military-industrial-intelligence\u00adcon\u00adgressional surveillance complex.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5938\">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-5938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938","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=5938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}