{"id":20783,"date":"2013-07-23T09:23:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T17:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=20783"},"modified":"2013-07-23T09:30:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T17:30:29","slug":"defund-the-snoops-call-congress-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/23\/defund-the-snoops-call-congress-now\/","title":{"rendered":"DEFUND THE SNOOPS: CALL CONGRESS NOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From (of all places!) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/354186\/amash-nsa-amendment-vote-expected-tomorrow-will-allen\"><em>National Review<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The House is scheduled to vote on Wednesday on amendments to the FY 2014 Defense Appropriations Bill, one of which will be\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bills\/113\/hr2399\/text\">the LIBERT-E Act<\/a>, which would prohibit the National Security Agency from collecting telephone and e-mail meta-data from American citizens who are not under investigation. Representative Justin Amash, a libertarian Republican from Michigan,\u00a0introduced the amendment in an effort to curtail the agency\u2019s controversial data-collection activities, which were disclosed earlier this year by fugitive ex-NSA-contractor Edward Snowden&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Meanwhile, the Huffington Post\u2019s Ryan Grim <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/07\/23\/keith-alexander-justin-amash_n_3639329.html\">reports<\/a> this morning that General Keith Alexander, the director of the NSA, has scheduled a meeting with several members of Congress in an effort to build opposition to the amendment.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Amash and insurgent libertarian Republicans are threatening to sink the whole Defense Appropriations bill unless this amendment is passed &#8212; and they need your help! Call your congressional representative(s) today &#8212; the vote is on Wednesday!<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t know what number to call? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.numbersusa.com\/content\/congress\/phone-numbers-and-mailing-addresses-memb.html\">Find out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From (of all places!) National Review: &#8220;The House is scheduled to vote on Wednesday on amendments to the FY 2014 Defense Appropriations Bill, one of which will be\u00a0the LIBERT-E Act, which would prohibit the National Security Agency from collecting telephone and e-mail meta-data from American citizens who are not under investigation. Representative Justin Amash, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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-20783","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\/20783","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20783"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20786,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20783\/revisions\/20786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20783"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}