{"id":904,"date":"2009-11-02T11:05:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T17:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=904"},"modified":"2009-11-02T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T17:05:53","slug":"obama-advances-bush-staatsicherheitspolitik-progressives-snooze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/obama-advances-bush-staatsicherheitspolitik-progressives-snooze\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Advances Bush Staatsicherheitspolitik, Progressives Snooze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that when historians look back at the decline &amp; fall of the United States of America, they will see <a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"Salon.com: &quot;Obama's latest use of 'secrecy' to shield presidential lawbreaking: What was once depicted as a grave act of lawlessness -- Bush's NSA program -- is now deemed a vital state secret&quot; by Glenn Greenwald\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2009\/11\/01\/state_secrets\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">President Jesus H. Obama&#8217;s embrace of Bush staatsicherheitspolitik as the inflection point. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, progressives can&#8217;t be bothered; they remain enchanted by <a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"NYT: &quot;The Obamas\u2019 Marriage&quot; By JODI KANTOR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/01\/magazine\/01Obama-t.html?hpw\" target=\"_blank\">his hypnotic projection of pleasing images&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Obama administration has essentially adopted the position of the Bush administration in these cases, even though candidate Obama was incredibly critical of both the warrantless wiretapping program and the Bush administration&#8217;s abuse of the state secrets privilege.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,13],"tags":[222,163,226,213,165,225,521,494],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-insecurity-heimatssicherheitsdienst-staatssicherheit","category-politics","tag-expansion-of-abusive-bush-policies","tag-george-w-bush","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-jesus-h-obama","tag-new-york-times","tag-salon-com","tag-staatsicherheitspolitik","tag-zombie-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}