{"id":106,"date":"2002-12-07T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-07T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=106"},"modified":"2002-12-07T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-07T13:03:00","slug":"washington-post-ashcroft-urges-justice-department-to-ignore-freedom-of-information-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/article\">Washington Post:<\/a> Ashcroft urges justice department to ignore Freedom of Information Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalley.com\/mld\/siliconvalley\/business\/columnists\/dan_gillmor\/ejournal\/4647281.htm\">Dan Gillmor<\/a><br \/>\nOne 36-year-old U.S. law can be broken, it seems. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, who is sworn to enforce all laws, has told federal employees that they can bend &#8212; perhaps even break &#8212; one law, and he will even defend their actions in court. That law is known as the Freedom of Information Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via Dan Gillmor One 36-year-old U.S. law can be broken, it seems. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, who is sworn to enforce all laws, has told federal employees that they can bend &#8212; perhaps even break &#8212; one law, and he will even defend their actions in court. That law is known as the Freedom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=106\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/article\">Washington Post:<\/a> Ashcroft urges justice department to ignore Freedom of Information Act&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-1I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}