{"id":147,"date":"2005-12-16T15:16:40","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T19:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/wp\/?p=147"},"modified":"2005-12-16T15:16:40","modified_gmt":"2005-12-16T19:16:40","slug":"talk_about_timi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/12\/talk_about_timi\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk about timing&#8230;,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m glad to know many of our Senators have some sense of honesty and know where to draw some lines. Heck, they miss most; in the end they may even miss this one, but, for the time being, they had some decency and common sense.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Senate Deals Setback to Bush on Patriot Act\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/12\/16\/AR2005121600221.html?sub=new\">Senate Deals Setback to Bush on Patriot Act<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn today&#8217;s Senate debate, several lawmakers cited a New York Times report disclosing that Bush signed a secret order in 2002 authorizing the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens and foreign nationals in the United States, despite previous legal prohibitions against such domestic spying.<br \/>\nSen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called the domestic spying &#8220;clearly and categorically wrong&#8221; and vowed to hold oversight hearings on the matter when the Senate reconvenes early next year after its holiday recess.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m glad to know many of our Senators have some sense of honesty and know where to draw some lines. Heck, they miss most; in the end they may even miss this one, but, for the time being, they had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/12\/talk_about_timi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}