{"id":915,"date":"2008-06-16T10:05:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T14:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=915"},"modified":"2008-06-16T10:05:03","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T14:05:03","slug":"fisa-deal-not-so-fast-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/06\/16\/fisa-deal-not-so-fast-please\/","title":{"rendered":"FISA Deal: Not So Fast, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/16\/congress-nears-deal-on-surveillance-bill\/\">According to the NYT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers are hoping for a breakthrough this week on changes to national security legislation that has divided Congress for months: the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>Senior Congressional officials said they hoped to seal an agreement early this week and quickly vote in the House and Senate on legislation[.]<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;d like to rush it through as quickly as possible, what with the <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/02\/12\/webb-sells-us-out-again\/\">bipartisan tradition of selling out<\/a> citizens&#8217; civil rights for the interests of the telecom companies.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 So what&#8217;s the big compromise?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After weeks of talks, lawmakers have worked out a deal that would allow federal courts to settle the question of whether the telecommunications companies should be protected because they were assured their participation was legal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Something tells me that that&#8217;ll turn out to be something other than what it appears.\u00c2\u00a0 Let&#8217;s not hurry legislation that&#8217;s designed to bury wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the NYT: Lawmakers are hoping for a breakthrough this week on changes to national security legislation that has divided Congress for months: the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. [ . . . ] Senior Congressional officials said they hoped to seal an agreement early this week and quickly vote in the House and Senate [&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":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","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=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}