{"id":22553,"date":"2020-03-03T20:25:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T04:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22553"},"modified":"2020-03-03T20:25:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T04:25:13","slug":"surveillance-fight-gets-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22553","title":{"rendered":"SURVEILLANCE FIGHT GETS PERSONAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital rights activists are fundraising for a billboard criticizing House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) over his efforts to reauthorize a surveillance bill that they say does not go far enough in reforming how the government is allowed to spy on everyday Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The two groups, Fight for the Future and Demand Progress, on Tuesday launched a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xpbsknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqsdjrcc_scbbmmvrvtbmlvrspcll.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xpbsknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqsdjrcc_scbbmmvrvtbmlvrspcll.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1583381482113000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHBajsQwWBmirBy5ox7zXEsMTF4VA\">crowdfunding page<\/a>\u00a0to raise money for the billboard, which would go up in Schiff&#8217;s California district.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only the latest effort by progressive and civil libertarian activists to target Schiff and other national security-minded Democrats over their support for a bill that they say would only mildly reform a trio of government surveillance authorities set to expire by March 15.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just a few weeks ago, Adam Schiff stood before Congress and told all of America that Donald Trump abused the power of the presidency for his personal political gain,&#8221; Dayton Young, a director with Fight for the Future, said in a statement, referring to Schiff&#8217;s role as one of the leading House managers in impeaching President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So why does he now want to reauthorize this dangerous legislation that grants the president more powers to abuse?&#8221; Young said. &#8220;And why is he fighting other Democratic lawmakers pressing for reform? It just doesn&#8217;t make sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital rights activists are fundraising for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22554,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22553\/revisions\/22554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}