{"id":129888,"date":"2016-02-21T22:22:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T05:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/21\/is-anyone-shocked-anti-terrorism-powers-are-being-used-for-non-terrorism-cases.html"},"modified":"2016-02-21T22:22:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T05:22:30","slug":"is-anyone-shocked-anti-terrorism-powers-are-being-used-for-non-terrorism-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/21\/is-anyone-shocked-anti-terrorism-powers-are-being-used-for-non-terrorism-cases.html","title":{"rendered":"Is anyone shocked anti-terrorism powers are being used for non-terrorism cases?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Sneak and Peak&quot; warrants were describe as essential for combating terrorism when the PATRIOT Act was passed after 9\/11. What&#39;s remarkable is how <i>rarely<\/i> such warrants are being used against terrorism vs. other cases (usually narcotics ones).<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: <i>&#39;Assume that any power you grant to the federal government to fight terrorism will inevitably be used in other contexts.&#39;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2014\/10\/29\/surprise-controversial-patriot-act-power-now-overwhelmingly-used-in-drug-investigations\/?tid=ss_tw'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/areFylTY9NSOlPPmRkn2BJxf3zfKuBeUkX18VIj2XzmC89bsdRoPOleU1aZLTefvgkcS4RmSGQ6hUY4-hRE44I9Kg7jdM_1oBNXrvOnvj482haoSY32UZVvTceWDx345bh759LmPaqoqNJVAgUoNYTp-ydswsGUN_NHPhgXDY4YDGyzU5HyJrR1PijmrWA=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2014\/10\/29\/surprise-controversial-patriot-act-power-now-overwhelmingly-used-in-drug-investigations\/?tid=ss_tw'>Surprise! Controversial Patriot Act power now overwhelmingly used in drug investigations<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAbout one half of one percent of &#8220;sneak-and-peek&#8221; warrants are used in terrorism investigations.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/P4mK5ahiNHD'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Sneak and Peak&quot; warrants were describe as essential for combating terrorism when the PATRIOT Act was passed after 9\/11. What&#39;s remarkable is how rarely such warrants are being used against terrorism vs. other cases (usually narcotics ones). Bottom line: &#39;Assume that any power you grant to the federal government to fight terrorism will inevitably be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/21\/is-anyone-shocked-anti-terrorism-powers-are-being-used-for-non-terrorism-cases.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is anyone shocked anti-terrorism powers are being used for non-terrorism cases?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46821,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/06\/the-fabulous-excuse-of-terror.html","url_meta":{"origin":129888,"position":0},"title":"The fabulous excuse of TERROR!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Nov-14 7:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"Is anyone particularly surprised by this?'Section 213 was included in the Patriot Act over the protests of privacy advocates and granted law enforcement the power to conduct a search while delaying notice to the suspect of the search. 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