{"id":1105,"date":"2008-08-09T18:01:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T22:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2008-08-09T18:01:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T22:01:06","slug":"it-does-happen-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/08\/09\/it-does-happen-here\/","title":{"rendered":"It *Does* Happen Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many times in the course of conversations about privacy and politics, people are otherwise share my same general socio-political moorings express great doubt that the US government would ever spy on people for any reason other than crime prevention.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 While I&#8217;m never at a loss for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/COINTELPRO\">counter examples<\/a>, I&#8217;ll have to say that the best documented examples are often a generation or two old, and probably carry a little less currency, as a result.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, governments &#8211; state and federal &#8211; have been obliging me lately.\u00c2\u00a0 First we had Maryland police <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/bal-te.md.spy18jul18,0,3787307.story\">closely tracking the activities of dangerous people like anti-death penalty activists<\/a>, and now we&#8217;ve got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/09\/washington\/09inquire.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">straight admission from the FBI<\/a> that it spied on reporters from the Washington Post and New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>It not only can happen here, it *does* happen here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many times in the course of conversations about privacy and politics, people are otherwise share my same general socio-political moorings express great doubt that the US government would ever spy on people for any reason other than crime prevention.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 While I&#8217;m never at a loss for counter examples, I&#8217;ll have to say that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution","category-law","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}