{"id":133,"date":"2006-02-06T20:09:55","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T01:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/06\/good-for-joe\/"},"modified":"2006-02-06T20:48:14","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T01:48:14","slug":"good-for-joe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/06\/good-for-joe\/","title":{"rendered":"good for Joe&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>from <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/02\/06\/AR2006020600931_pf.html\">today&#8217;s hearings<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong> BIDEN:<\/strong> Let me very precise.  <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><font color=\"#600000\"><strong> GONZALES:<\/strong> OK.<\/font>  <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong> BIDEN:<\/strong> I have not heard of NSA saying to the Intelligence Committee, &quot;We are binding ourselves as we engage in this activity under the minimization procedures of 12333, as well as other statutes.&quot; I&#8217;m unaware that that&#8217;s written down or stated anywhere or been presented to the Intelligence Committee. Can you assure us that has been done?  <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><font color=\"#600000\"><strong> GONZALES:<\/strong> No, sir, I can&#8217;t assure you that.<\/font>  <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong> BIDEN:<\/strong> Can you assure us, General, that you are fully, totally informed and confident that you know the absolute detail with which this program is being conducted? Can you assure us you personally can assure us that no one is being eavesdropped upon in the United States other than someone who has a communication that is emanating from foreign soil by a suspected terrorist, Al Qaida or otherwise?  <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><font color=\"#600000\"><strong> GONZALES:<\/strong> Sir, I can&#8217;t give you absolute assurance of the kind that you&#8217;ve asked for.<\/font>  <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong> BIDEN:<\/strong> Who can?   <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from today&#8217;s hearings: BIDEN: Let me very precise. GONZALES: OK. BIDEN: I have not heard of NSA saying to the Intelligence Committee, &quot;We are binding ourselves as we engage in this activity under the minimization procedures of 12333, as well as other statutes.&quot; I&#8217;m unaware that that&#8217;s written down or stated anywhere or been presented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}