{"id":427,"date":"2005-12-19T10:19:35","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T10:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=427"},"modified":"2005-12-19T10:19:35","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T10:19:35","slug":"post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/12\/19\/post\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Thought Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ponder if you will the following quotes:<\/p>\n

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

–Amendment IV, U.S. Constitution<\/p>\n

[President] Bush said he approved [wiretapping without a court warrant] “because it enables us to move faster and quicker. We’ve got to be fast on our feet.<\/p>\n

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“It is legal to do so. I swore to uphold the laws. Legal authority is derived from the Constitution,” he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

—“Bush Says NSA Surveillance Necessary, Legal”<\/a>, The Washington Post<\/i><\/p>\n

Interesting, don’t you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ponder if you will the following quotes: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}