{"id":12839,"date":"2006-02-11T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/11\/gonzalez-george-washington-tapped-phones\/"},"modified":"2006-02-11T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-11T14:43:00","slug":"gonzalez-george-washington-tapped-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/11\/gonzalez-george-washington-tapped-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonzalez &#8211; George Washington Tapped Phones?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez would have you believe that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/01\/15\/domestic.spying.ap\/\" target=\"_blank\">W&rsquo;s authorization of domestic wiretapping by the NSA<\/a> is no big deal.  After all, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2006\/02\/06.html#a7043\" target=\"_blank\">recently testified<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/movies.crooksandliars.com\/gonzales-Washington-electronic.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">WMV<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.crooksandliars.com\/gonzales-Washing.mov\" target=\"_blank\">QT<\/a> video), &ldquo;President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic surveillance on a <strong>far<\/strong> broader scale.&rdquo;  Um, what?!  Just in case the idiocy of this statement isn&rsquo;t clear, there was <strong>no electricity<\/strong> when George Washington was president.  For further dissection of the rest of this moronic position, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/huffpost\/20060207\/cm_huffpost\/015225;_ylt=A86.I2GZ0.hD1_UAyg_9wxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--\" target=\"_blank\"><i>HuffingtonPost.com<\/i> goes into more detail<\/a>&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/dick\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">dick<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/military\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">military<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/conspiracy\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">conspiracy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/w\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">w<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/video\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-113954044398277131?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez would have you believe that W&rsquo;s authorization of domestic wiretapping by the NSA is no big deal. After all, he recently testified (WMV or QT video), &ldquo;President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic surveillance on a far broader scale.&rdquo; Um, what?! Just in case the idiocy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/11\/gonzalez-george-washington-tapped-phones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gonzalez &#8211; George Washington Tapped Phones?!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}