{"id":20295,"date":"2013-06-07T09:07:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T17:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=20295"},"modified":"2013-06-07T09:07:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T17:07:25","slug":"i-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/07\/i-object\/","title":{"rendered":"I Object!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FISA Court Chief Judge Reggie Walton <em>objects<\/em> to the characterization of his court as a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jun\/06\/fisa-court-judge-verizon-records-surveillance\">rubber stamp<\/a>&#8221; that will approve literally anything. Even though they approved an order to spy on every goddamn phone call in the United States. <\/p>\n<p>President Obama <em>objects<\/em> to the media calling PRISM a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2013\/06\/07\/obama-clapper-national-security-agency-leaks\/2400405\/\">secret<\/a>&#8221; program, even though the Powerpoint presentation that finally revealed it&#8217;s existence, some 5 years after it started, is stamped &#8220;Top Secret.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I object to the idea that either of these men was able to rise to a position above crossing guard on a not-too-busy street. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FISA Court Chief Judge Reggie Walton objects to the characterization of his court as a &#8220;rubber stamp&#8221; that will approve literally anything. Even though they approved an order to spy on every goddamn phone call in the United States. President Obama objects to the media calling PRISM a &#8220;secret&#8221; program, even though the Powerpoint presentation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-20295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20296,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20295\/revisions\/20296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20295"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}