{"id":2848,"date":"2008-04-01T01:56:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T01:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/bush-calls-for-more-eavesdropping\/2848\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T03:58:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T03:58:18","slug":"bush-calls-for-more-eavesdropping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/bush-calls-for-more-eavesdropping\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush calls for more eavesdropping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\" id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblBody\"><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2855\" href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/bush-calls-for-more-eavesdropping\/2848\/bushjpg\/\" title=\"bush.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/bush.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"bush.jpg\" title=\"bush.jpg\" \/><\/a>US President George W. Bush has called on the Congress to pass a &#8216;vital&#8217; pending legislation aimed at loosening domestic eavesdropping rules. <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\" id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblBody\">Speaking before leaving Washington for Kiev and the NATO summit in Bucharest on Monday, Bush said the US legislature has &#8216;a lot of work to do&#8217; as it returns from recess.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\" id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblBody\">&#8220;Our intelligence professionals are waiting on the Congress to give them the tools they need to measure terrorist communications,&#8221; Bush said of the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act reform.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed reform would ease requirements for court warrants to conduct wiretaps on foreign phone calls and e-mails of suspected security threats that pass through the US.<\/p>\n<p>It also provides liability protection to telecommunications firms helping in the wiretaps, a sticking point with the Democrat-controlled Congress which objects to give the companies that level of legal immunity.<\/p>\n<p>Bush also told reporters that Congress should pass a free-trade deal with Colombia and a law to modernize the Federal Housing Administration.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=49740&amp;sectionid=3510203\">MHE\/MMN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President George W. Bush has called on the Congress to pass a &#8216;vital&#8217; pending legislation aimed at loosening domestic eavesdropping rules. Speaking before leaving Washington for Kiev and the NATO summit in Bucharest on Monday, Bush said the US legislature has &#8216;a lot of work to do&#8217; as it returns from recess.&#8220;Our intelligence professionals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1614,1616],"tags":[30,27,49,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-2848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surveillance-big-brother","7":"category-usa-news","8":"tag-big-brother","9":"tag-bush","10":"tag-usa-news","11":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}