{"id":846,"date":"2007-03-14T08:51:46","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T08:50:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T08:50:41","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"DoJ&#8217;s webpage and the National Security Letter probe of the DoJ IG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/\">U.S. Department of Justice website<\/a> has links on its homepage, at least as of now, of its Inspector General&#8217;s findings on abuse of National Security Letters not being used for national security purposes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/ag\/speeches\/2007\/ag_070309_ag_letter.pdf\">Attorney General&#8217;s letter responding to IG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/ag\/speeches\/2007\/ag_speech_070309.html\">Attorney General&#8217;s speech of March 9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/pressrel\/pressrel07\/nsl030907.htm\">FBI&#8217;s letter responding to IG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/opa\/pr\/2007\/March\/07_nsd_140.html\">DoJ&#8217;s response<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/opa\/pr\/2007\/March\/07_ag_139.html\">DoJ factsheet on NSLs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did anybody, DoJ employees included, think that NSLs would not be confined to national security purposes only?  Of course not.  If history of the power to search and seize has proved anything, it is this: To just grant power to law enforcement insures that it will be exercised to the fullest extreme possible, so Congress in granting the power had to know what was coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=846\">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-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","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=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}