{"id":52,"date":"2008-10-29T02:06:09","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T07:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/?p=52"},"modified":"2008-10-29T02:06:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T07:06:09","slug":"without-immunity-telecoms-backing-off-illegal-wiretaps-for-bush-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/without-immunity-telecoms-backing-off-illegal-wiretaps-for-bush-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"WITHOUT IMMUNITY, TELECOMS BACKING OFF ILLEGAL WIRETAPS FOR BUSH REGIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWSWEEK &#8211; It&#8217;s been barely a week since the Democratic-controlled  Congress allowed a temporary electronic spying law to lapse. But U.S.  intelligence agencies are already encountering problems maintaining and  expanding vital operations, the Bush administration claims.  In a letter sent late on Friday to House Intelligence Committee Chairman  Silvestre Reyes, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell and  Attorney General Michael Mukasey claimed that in the six days since the  temporary law expired, some &#8220;partners&#8221; in intelligence operations have  &#8220;reduced cooperation.&#8221; According to two government officials, who asked  for anonymity when discussing sensitive material, the &#8220;partners&#8221;  referred to in the letter are (unnamed) U.S. telecommunications  companies, who-with administration backing-have been aggressively  lobbying Congress for a controversial clause in new electronic spying  legislation. The clause would effectively wipe out a series of private  lawsuits seeking damages against the telecoms for their cooperation with  what civil libertarians and administration critics claim was an illegal  expansion of electronic spying against targets inside the U.S.-an  expansion authorized by President Bush in the wake of the 9\/11 attacks.  <a title=\"Telecoms back off of illegal wiretaps\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/114572\">http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/114572<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWSWEEK &#8211; It&#8217;s been barely a week since the Democratic-controlled Congress allowed a temporary electronic spying law to lapse. But U.S. intelligence agencies are already encountering problems maintaining and expanding vital operations, the Bush administration claims. In a letter sent late on Friday to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seekers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}