{"id":6150,"date":"2011-05-26T06:39:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T11:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=6150"},"modified":"2011-05-26T06:39:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T11:39:42","slug":"there%e2%80%99s-a-secret-patriot-act-senator-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/05\/26\/there%e2%80%99s-a-secret-patriot-act-senator-says\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found the article <a title=\"Wird.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2011\/05\/secret-patriot-act\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>There\u2019s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says<\/strong><\/a> on wired.com.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019re getting to a gap between what the public thinks the law says and what the American government secretly thinks the law says,\u201d Wyden tells Danger Room in an interview in his Senate office. \u201cWhen you\u2019ve got that kind of a gap, you\u2019re going to have a problem on your hands.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What Senator Ron Wyden is saying is that there is a law of the land that you are obligated to follow, but you cannot be told what it is.\u00a0 It makes me wonder who is actually running this government. I am very unhappy to hear that this sort of thing continues under the Obama administration.\u00a0 I was very naive to believe that getting rid of George W. Bush would put an end to this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found the article There\u2019s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says on wired.com. \u201cWe\u2019re getting to a gap between what the public thinks the law says and what the American government secretly thinks the law says,\u201d Wyden tells Danger Room in an interview in his Senate office. \u201cWhen you\u2019ve got that kind of a gap, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6151,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions\/6151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}