{"id":9225,"date":"2006-09-30T19:21:56","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T19:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9225"},"modified":"2006-09-30T19:21:56","modified_gmt":"2006-09-30T19:21:56","slug":"eff-alert-24-hours-to-stop-wiretapping-bills-before-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9225","title":{"rendered":"EFF Alert: 24 Hours to Stop Wiretapping Bills Before the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Slater from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/\" target=\"new\">EFF<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\" target=\"new\">Boing Boing<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We&#8217;ve got 24 hours to <a href=\"http:\/\/action.eff.org\/fisa\" target=\"new\">stop the NSA wiretapping bills in the Senate<\/a> and let cases like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/legal\/cases\/att\" target=\"new\">EFF&#8217;s lawsuit against AT&#038;T<\/a> proceed in the traditional court system. Worse still, now some of your Congressional representatives are trying to sneak a dangerous surveillance proposal into the Port Security Bill. If your representative is on the list in this post, call them IMMEDIATELY to oppose the NSA spying program.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The amendment is so bad, I&#8217;ll let it speak for itself: &#8220;no action, claim, or proceeding shall lie or be maintained in any court &#8230; against any person for an activity arising from or relating to the provision to an element of the intelligence community of any information &#8230; in connection with any alleged communications intelligence program that the Attorney General or a designee of the Attorney General certifies, in a manner consistent with the protection of State secrets, is, was, or would be intended to protect the United States from a terrorist attack. This section shall apply to all actions, claims, or proceedings pending on or after the effective date of this Act.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Slater from the EFF (via Boing Boing): &#8220;We&#8217;ve got 24 hours to stop the NSA wiretapping bills in the Senate and let cases like EFF&#8217;s lawsuit against AT&#038;T proceed in the traditional court system. Worse still, now some of your Congressional representatives are trying to sneak a dangerous surveillance proposal into the Port Security &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9225\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;EFF Alert: 24 Hours to Stop Wiretapping Bills Before the Election&#8221;<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}