{"id":9210,"date":"2013-08-06T12:12:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T12:12:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T12:12:36","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9210","title":{"rendered":"NYT: T.S.A. Expands Duties Beyond Airport Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/06\/us\/tsa-expands-duties-beyond-airport-security.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;_r=0\">T.S.A. Expands Duties Beyond Airport Security<\/a> by Ron Nixon:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 As hundreds of commuters emerged from Amtrak and commuter trains at Union Station on a recent morning, an armed squad of men and women dressed in bulletproof vests made their way through the crowds. <\/p>\n<p>The squad was not with the Washington police department or Amtrak\u2019s police force, but was one of the Transportation Security Administration\u2019s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response squads \u2014 VIPR teams for short \u2014 assigned to perform random security sweeps to prevent terrorist attacks at transportation hubs across the United States. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9210\">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-9210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210","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=9210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}