{"id":21130,"date":"2013-07-16T08:38:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T13:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21130"},"modified":"2013-07-16T08:38:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T13:38:37","slug":"state-of-play-in-the-surveillance-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/07\/16\/state-of-play-in-the-surveillance-state\/","title":{"rendered":"State of play in the surveillance state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re just getting back from an extended vacation with no access to the news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/contributed\/2013-07-15\/cheat-sheet-spying\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;George Washington&#8221;<\/a> at <em>Zero Hedge<\/em> has a cheat-sheet on spying that you might want to have a look at:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The government is spying on just about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/07\/anyone-who-says-the-government-only-spies-on-limited-targets-is-wrong.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>everything<\/em> we do<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>The government has adopted a secret interpretation of the Patriot Act which allows it to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/07\/governments-secret-interpretation-of-patriot-act-everything-is-relevant-so-spy-on-everyone.html\" target=\"_blank\">pretend that \u201c<em>everything<\/em>\u201d is relevant \u2026 so it spies on <em>everyone<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/07\/the-fact-that-mass-surveillance-doesnt-keep-us-safe-goes-mainstream.html\" target=\"_blank\">The government\u2019s mass spying <em>doesn\u2019t keep us safe<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/06\/no-nsa-spying-did-not-prevent-a-terror-attack-on-wall-street.html\" target=\"_blank\">NSA spying did <em>not<\/em> prevent a terror attack on Wall Street<\/a><\/li>\n<li>There is <em>no real oversight<\/em> by either <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.washingtonpost.com\/2013-06-18\/opinions\/40046491_1_intelligence-agencies-intelligence-programs-chris-inglis\" target=\"_blank\">Congress<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2013\/jun\/19\/fisa-court-oversight-process-secrecy\" target=\"_blank\">the courts<\/a>.  And see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2013\/06\/23\/5515653\/editorial-secret-fisa-court-rubber.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/06\/14\/fisa-court-essentially-a-rubber-stamp-for-government-report-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Even a Federal judge who was on the secret spying court for 3 years <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/07\/even-fisa-court-judge-says-its-a-kangaroo-court.html\" target=\"_blank\">says that it\u2019s a <em>kangaroo court<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Experts say that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/28\/opinion\/the-criminal-nsa.html?pagewanted=all&#038;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">the spying program is <em>illegal<\/em><\/a>, and is <em>exactly<\/em> the kind of thing which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/07\/nsa-spying-is-exactly-the-kind-of-thing-which-caused-the-revolutionary-war-against-king-george.html\" target=\"_blank\">King George imposed on the American colonists \u2026 which led to the Revolutionary War<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lots more at <em>Zero Hedge<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re just getting back from an extended vacation with no access to the news, &#8220;George Washington&#8221; at Zero Hedge has a cheat-sheet on spying that you might want to have a look at: The government is spying on just about everything we do The government has adopted a secret interpretation of the Patriot Act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,10,13],"tags":[476,913,265,334,911],"class_list":["post-21130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-liberty","category-usa","tag-espionage","tag-nsa","tag-patriotact","tag-security","tag-surveillance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5uO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21131,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21130\/revisions\/21131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}