{"id":17508,"date":"2015-06-02T00:02:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T05:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17508"},"modified":"2015-06-01T21:00:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T02:00:40","slug":"wapo-editorial-rand-paul-should-stop-stalling-the-usa-freedom-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17508","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Editorial: Rand Paul should stop stalling the USA Freedom Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo Editorial: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/too-hot-under-the-collar\/2015\/06\/01\/8aae3788-0877-11e5-9e39-0db921c47b93_story.html\">Rand Paul should stop stalling the USA Freedom Act<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LEGISLATION TO reform the National Security Agency\u2019s surveillance of telephone metadata and put it on a firmer legal footing has passed the House with a huge bipartisan majority. President Obama backs it, as does a bipartisan majority in the Senate. The Senate would have passed the bill, too, but for the machinations of the majority leader, Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who favored an ill-considered perpetuation of the status quo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo Editorial: Rand Paul should stop stalling the USA Freedom Act: LEGISLATION TO reform the National Security Agency\u2019s surveillance of telephone metadata and put it on a firmer legal footing has passed the House with a huge bipartisan majority. President &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17508\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17509,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508\/revisions\/17509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}