{"id":1863,"date":"2009-01-08T12:26:55","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T17:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2009-01-08T09:30:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T14:30:36","slug":"a-double-standard-cont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1863","title":{"rendered":"A Double Standard (cont.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Greenwald, as always, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2009\/01\/07\/tamm\/index.html\">over-the-top and on point<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s America&#8217;s justice system in a nutshell:\u00a0\u00a0the\u00a0President who deliberately and knowingly violated our 30-year-old law making it a felony offense to eavesdrop on Americans without warrants has the entire political and media class eagerly defend him against prosecution.\u00a0 Those who enabled him &#8211; in both parties &#8211; block investigations into what was done.\u00a0 Ruth\u00a0Marcus and\u00a0Cass Sunstein and friends offer one excuse after the next to justify this immunity. \u00a0But the powerless and defenseless &#8211; though definitively courageous &#8211; public servant who blew the whistle on this lawbreaking is harassed, investigated, and pursued by the DOJ&#8217;s Criminal\u00a0Division to the point of bankruptcy and depression, while the lawbreakers and their enablers stand by mute and satisfied.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Greenwald, as always, over-the-top and on point: That&#8217;s America&#8217;s justice system in a nutshell:\u00a0\u00a0the\u00a0President who deliberately and knowingly violated our 30-year-old law making it a felony offense to eavesdrop on Americans without warrants has the entire political and media class eagerly defend him against prosecution.\u00a0 Those who enabled him &#8211; in both parties &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,367,4,458],"tags":[77,69,1235],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-national-security","category-politics","category-the-opinionsphere","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-rule-of-law","tag-thomas-tamm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-u3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}