{"id":9159,"date":"2013-07-29T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:10:07","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9159","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: GOP Hypocrisy on the NSA: The John Kerry Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo Op-Ed: GOP Hypocrisy on the NSA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/marc-thiessen-house-republicans-nsa-hypocrisy\/2013\/07\/29\/a39612f8-f847-11e2-8e84-c56731a202fb_story.html\">The John Kerry Republicans<\/a> by Marc A. Thiessen:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the 2004 presidential campaign, John Kerry was widely ridiculed when, in discussing Iraq and Afghanistan war funding, he declared, \u201cI actually did vote for [it] before I voted against it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, now 50 House Republicans can say the same thing about their votes on the National Security Agency\u2019s (NSA) terrorist surveillance program.<\/p>\n<p>Just over two years ago, on May 26, 2011, the House passed the 2011 Patriot Sunset Extension Act, which specifically reauthorized Section 215, the provision that underlies the NSA\u2019s telephone metadata program. The House approved the bill by a comfortable 97-vote margin, with almost the entire GOP caucus \u2014 196 Republicans \u2014 voting in favor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9159\">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-9159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159","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=9159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}