{"id":32071,"date":"2013-01-04T22:37:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T05:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/04\/thats-for-us-to-know-and-you-to-not-find-out.html"},"modified":"2013-01-04T22:37:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T05:37:53","slug":"thats-for-us-to-know-and-you-to-not-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/04\/thats-for-us-to-know-and-you-to-not-find-out.html","title":{"rendered":"That's for US to know, and you to not find out"},"content":{"rendered":"

A review of privacy and national security and transparency the last week or two. Not a happy story at all.<\/p>\n

'Mr Obama first ran for office five years ago promising to roll back some of his predecessor's more outrageous violations of civil liberties. He has done nothing of the sort. Mr Obama signed the FISA extension into law on December 30th, and he won the right to keep his rationale for killing Americans secret three days later. He deserves full measures of opprobrium for both, but this is no more about him than the Patriot Act was about his predecessor. The extension lasts for five years, by which time Mr Obama will no longer be in office. This is about America's imperial presidency and the fourth amendment, which it has trampled into irrelevant ink smudges.'<\/i><\/p>\n

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A review of privacy and national security and transparency the last week or two. Not a happy story at all. 'Mr Obama first ran for office five years ago promising to roll back some of his predecessor's more outrageous violations of civil liberties. He has done nothing of the sort. 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