{"id":7795,"date":"2012-10-05T11:47:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T11:47:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T11:47:35","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7795","title":{"rendered":"Reason.com: &#8220;Warrantless Spying Skyrockets Under Obama&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reason.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2012\/10\/03\/warrantless-spying-skyrockets-under-obam\">Warrantless Spying Skyrockets Under Obama<\/a>, And the news is being met with the equivalent of crickets chirping by A. Barton Hinkle:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is it fascism yet?<\/p>\n<p>That was the snarky question glued to the bumper of every self-respecting progressive\u2019s gas\/electric hybrid back during the Bush-Cheney administration. It now must be asked again.<\/p>\n<p>Back then, liberals were raising the alarm about impending fascism because of post-9\/11 policies such as warrantless wiretapping, wars of choice, military commissions, indefinite detention and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Warrantless surveillance, for instance, drew intense scrutiny and saturation media coverage from the time it was discovered until approximately 12:05 p.m. EST January 20, 2009. Interest then dropped off markedly. After all, Barack Obama had promised \u201cno more illegal wiretapping of American citizens.\u201d So, problem solved.<\/p>\n<p>Except it wasn\u2019t. In fact, it got worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7795\">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-7795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795","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=7795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}