{"id":76,"date":"2002-11-17T22:48:11","date_gmt":"2002-11-18T03:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2002-11-17T22:48:11","modified_gmt":"2002-11-18T03:48:11","slug":"big-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Big brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was thinking about the latest worrisome developments, like John &#8220;Iran-Contra&#8221; Poindexter running a Defense Department program to set up a vast data mining operation, which will sift through credit card records, medical records, travel records, and email, along with government and legal records, on a vast and random fishing expedition for signs of potential crime.<br \/>\nNo prior cause, no warrants, no permission necessary.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/11\/14\/opinion\/14SAFI.html\">William Safire&#8217;s<\/a> tirade against the program, if you haven&#8217;t read it yet.  Posted by David Weinberger in full, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/mtarchive\/000008.html\">here.<\/a><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/SafeandFree\/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=11309&#038;c=206\">ACLU&#8217;s<\/a> arguments against it.<br \/>\nAnd I thought that the one thing we were missing was a real, honest-to-goodness secret police.<br \/>\nThen I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&#038;cid=564&#038;ncid=564&#038;e=11&#038;u=\/nm\/20021116\/ts_nm\/bush_spy_dc_2\">this<\/a>. The President&#8217;s national security advisors are recommending the creation of a brand new domestic spy agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was thinking about the latest worrisome developments, like John &#8220;Iran-Contra&#8221; Poindexter running a Defense Department program to set up a vast data mining operation, which will sift through credit card records, medical records, travel records, and email, along with government and legal records, on a vast and random fishing expedition for signs of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=76\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Big brother&#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-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-1e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}