{"id":2844,"date":"2007-03-23T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2007-03-23T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T08:56:00","slug":"my_national_sec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2844","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;My National Security Letter Gag Order&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/22\/AR2007032201882.html\">Via the Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Justice Department&#8217;s inspector general revealed on March 9 that the FBI has been systematically abusing one of the most controversial provisions of the USA Patriot Act: the expanded power to issue &#8220;national security letters.&#8221; It no doubt surprised most Americans to learn that between 2003 and 2005 the FBI issued more than 140,000 specific demands under this provision &#8212; demands issued without a showing of probable cause or prior judicial approval &#8212; to obtain potentially sensitive information about U.S. citizens and residents. It did not, however, come as any surprise to me.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Washington Post: The Justice Department&#8217;s inspector general revealed on March 9 that the FBI has been systematically abusing one of the most controversial provisions of the USA Patriot Act: the expanded power to issue &#8220;national security letters.&#8221; It no doubt surprised most Americans to learn that between 2003 and 2005 the FBI issued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}