{"id":1067,"date":"2004-01-30T13:45:21","date_gmt":"2004-01-30T20:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/bush-fights-for-patriot-act\/"},"modified":"2004-01-30T13:45:21","modified_gmt":"2004-01-30T20:45:21","slug":"bush-fights-for-patriot-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bush-fights-for-patriot-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Fights For Patriot Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Veto Threatened on Bill to Restrict Powers Under Terrorism Law\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/01\/30\/politics\/30PATR.html?th\">Veto Threatened on Bill to Restrict Powers Under Terrorism Law<\/a> By ERIC LICHTBLAU, NYTimes<\/p>\n<p>The Bush administration, stepping up the debate over its antiterrorism policies, threatened on Thursday to <b>veto<\/b> a pending bill that would scale back the government&#8217;s powers under the USA Patriot Act.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General John Ashcroft told reporters that the bill, sponsored by Senate Republicans and Democrats, <b>&#8220;unilaterally disarms America&#8217;s defenses&#8221;<\/b> against terrorists and that President Bush intended to veto the measure if Congress passed it.<\/p>\n<p>The threat of a veto represents <b>an unusual pre-emptive strike by the administration<\/b>. The bill has not even come up for a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Look at Asskraft&#8217;s (sic) hyperbole about &#8216;unilaterally disarms America&#8217;s defenses.&#8217; What a liar.<\/p>\n<p>Note that Duhbya has had zero vetoes, a modern record. Will his first veto be an attack against the Legislature&#8217;s attempt to rein-in the out-of-control Executive? mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veto Threatened on Bill to Restrict Powers Under Terrorism Law By ERIC LICHTBLAU, NYTimes The Bush administration, stepping up the debate over its antiterrorism policies, threatened on Thursday to veto a pending bill that would scale back the government&#8217;s powers under the USA Patriot Act. Attorney General John Ashcroft told reporters that the bill, sponsored &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bush-fights-for-patriot-act\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bush Fights For Patriot Act<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}