{"id":971,"date":"2006-01-06T16:44:33","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T20:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/01\/06\/illegal-ill-say-it-again-illegal-surveillance\/"},"modified":"2006-01-11T09:53:05","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T13:53:05","slug":"illegal-ill-say-it-again-illegal-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/01\/illegal-ill-say-it-again-illegal-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal &#8211; I&#8217;ll say it again &#8211; Illegal Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>United States Code Title 50, Chapter 36, Subchapter 1<br \/>\nSection 1809. Criminal sanctions<\/p>\n<p>    (a) Prohibited activities<br \/>\n    A person is guilty of an offense if he intentionally-<\/p>\n<p>        (1) engages in electronic surveillance under color of law except as authorized by statute<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsawatch.org\/nsa-illegal.html\">NSA Watch<\/a> lays it all out very clearly.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>FISA contains explicit language describing the president&#8217;s powers &#8220;during time of war&#8221; and provides that &#8220;the President, through the Attorney General, may authorize electronic surveillance without a court order under this title to acquire foreign intelligence information for a period not to exceed fifteen days following a declaration of war by the Congress.&#8221; 50 U.S.C. \u00c2\u00a7 1811 &#8230;<br \/>\nSo even if we accept the argument that the use-of-force resolution places us on a war footing, warrantless surveillance would have been legal for only 15 days after the resolution was passed on September 18, 2001. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Update: see also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/arianna-huffington\/debunking-bushs-nsa-lies_b_13223.html\">Debunking Bush&#8217;s NSA Lies<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>A huge sector of the American population is still unmoved, even in the midst of these revelations and obvious corruptions and scandals. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alienintelligencer.com\/2006\/01\/nsa-watch.html\">Alien Intelligencer<\/a> (winner of my Pithy Wit award today) puts it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think Dubya could gun down a bunch of nuns while pouring liquid chocolate over his pale, hairless, concave chest and singing La Marseillaise and still be embraced by the conservative faction in this country that is not-so-secretly longing for a monarchy to replace our political way of life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States Code Title 50, Chapter 36, Subchapter 1 Section 1809. Criminal sanctions (a) Prohibited activities A person is guilty of an offense if he intentionally- (1) engages in electronic surveillance under color of law except as authorized by statute NSA Watch lays it all out very clearly. FISA contains explicit language describing the president&#8217;s powers &#8220;during time of war&#8221; and provides that &#8220;the President, through the Attorney General, may authorize electronic surveillance without a court order under this title&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/01\/illegal-ill-say-it-again-illegal-surveillance\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5,10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-nation","category-culture","category-human-rights","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}