{"id":227,"date":"2006-05-15T10:42:51","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T15:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2006-07-19T15:54:42","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T20:54:42","slug":"and-if-they-didnt-like-what-they-heard-when-they-were-tapping-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"And if they didn&#8217;t like what they heard when they were tapping you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Yglesias <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/weblog\/2006\/05\/post_336.html\">has\u00c2\u00a0a few comments on the NSA&#8217;s phone tapping<\/a> everything and everybody a la Big Brother. If you think the Bush Administration wouldn&#8217;t misuse such information just\u00c2\u00a0remember how his Secretary of Housing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/36137\/\">boasted at\u00c2\u00a0a conference that he&#8217;d withdrawn the government contract<\/a> from a contractor critical of the President.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Last month, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson told a minority business group in Texas that he had retracted a HUD contract after learning it had been awarded to a qualified vendor who happened to be critical of the Bush administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Yglesias has\u00c2\u00a0a few comments on the NSA&#8217;s phone tapping everything and everybody a la Big Brother. If you think the Bush Administration wouldn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}