{"id":36022,"date":"2019-01-09T20:15:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T01:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36022"},"modified":"2019-01-09T20:15:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T01:15:26","slug":"aclu-blog-william-barr-helped-build-americas-surveillance-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36022","title":{"rendered":"ACLU blog: William Barr Helped Build America\u2019s Surveillance State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ACLU blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/national-security\/privacy-and-surveillance\/william-barr-helped-build-americas-surveillance\">William Barr Helped Build America\u2019s Surveillance State<\/a> by Neema Singh Guliani &#038; Brian Tashman:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>William Barr, President Trump\u2019s nominee for attorney general, has a history of getting it wrong. From designing warrantless surveillance programs to justifying the president\u2019s power to disregard acts of Congress, Barr has advanced dubious legal theories that have been rejected by the courts, Congress, and the public.<\/p>\n<p>As Barr begins the confirmation process, senators must question Barr on his record regarding the right to privacy and the Fourth Amendment \u2014 which raises serious concerns about his suitability to be attorney general. Barr has violated or supported violations of Americans constitutional rights, leaving a disastrous legacy of warrantless spying and government abuse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACLU blog: William Barr Helped Build America\u2019s Surveillance State by Neema Singh Guliani &#038; Brian Tashman:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa","category-national-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36022","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=36022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36023,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36022\/revisions\/36023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}