{"id":438,"date":"2007-03-09T15:10:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T20:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=438"},"modified":"2007-03-09T15:11:25","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T20:11:25","slug":"fbi-misused-patriot-act-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"FBI Misused Patriot Act &#8211; Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ap-story-p\">I told you so. What a surprise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\">From: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.wired.com\/dynamic\/stories\/N\/NATIONAL_SECURITY_LETTERS?SITE=WIRE&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">Wired<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\">&#8220;The report indicates abuse of the authority&#8221; Congress gave the FBI, said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. &#8220;You cannot have people act as free agents on something where they&#8217;re going to be delving into your privacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\">The committee&#8217;s top Republican, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, said the FBI appears to have &#8220;badly misused national security letters.&#8221; The senator said, &#8220;This is, regrettably, part of an ongoing process where the federal authorities are not really sensitive to privacy and go far beyond what we have authorized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told you so. What a surprise. From: Wired &#8220;The report indicates abuse of the authority&#8221; Congress gave the FBI, said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. &#8220;You cannot have people act as free agents on something where they&#8217;re going to be delving into your privacy.&#8221; The committee&#8217;s top Republican, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}