{"id":62,"date":"2006-02-24T13:14:46","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T18:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/24\/american-conservative-publishes-my-piece-on-book-on-nsa-spying\/"},"modified":"2006-02-24T15:07:12","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T20:07:12","slug":"american-conservative-publishes-my-piece-on-book-on-nsa-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/24\/american-conservative-publishes-my-piece-on-book-on-nsa-spying\/","title":{"rendered":"American Conservative publishes my piece on book on NSA spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The March 13 issue of <strong>American Conservative<\/strong> contains my review of James Risen&#8217;s A State of War.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is the start &#038; finish of the piece &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">James Risen\u2019s <em>A State of War<\/em> has opened a Pandora\u2019s Box for the Bush administration that no amount of howling, scowling, or bogus terrorist-attack warnings will be able to close. Risen\u2019s revelations on pervasive National Security Agency warrantless spying on Americans shred the final pretenses to legality of the Bush administration. Now the debate is simply whether, as Bush and his supporters claim, the president is effectively above the law and the Constitution during the time of (perpetual) war.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">****<\/font><font size=\"2\">Risen\u2019s revelations are propelling congressional and media investigations into the NSA warrantless wiretapping. It is very likely that the actual abuses will be far more widespread and shocking than what has been disclosed so far. Perhaps the best epithet for Bush\u2019s civil liberties record is the saying of Lily Tomlin: &#8220;No matter how cynical you become, it&#8217;s never enough to keep up.&#8221;<\/font><font size=\"2\"> <font size=\"3\"><font size=\"3\" \/><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\"><font size=\"3\"><font size=\"3\" \/><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\"><font size=\"3\"><font size=\"3\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The March 13 issue of American Conservative contains my review of James Risen&#8217;s A State of War.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is the start &#038; finish of the piece &#8211; James Risen\u2019s A State of War has opened a Pandora\u2019s Box for the Bush administration that no amount of howling, scowling, or bogus terrorist-attack warnings will be able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22,659],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-attention-deficit-democracy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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