{"id":1878,"date":"2008-02-01T10:13:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T15:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/congress-should-pass-the-patriots-act\/"},"modified":"2008-02-01T10:13:22","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T15:13:22","slug":"congress-should-pass-the-patriots-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/congress-should-pass-the-patriots-act","title":{"rendered":"Congress should pass the Patriots Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arlen Specter wants to get to the bottom of the Patriots’ spying scandal<\/a>, which broke early this season. And he’s mad that the NFL erased the evidence that the Pats turned over:<\/p>\n

“That requires an explanation,” Specter said. “The N.F.L. has a very preferred status in our country with their antitrust exemption. The American people are entitled to be sure about the integrity of the game. It’s analogous to the C.I.A. destruction of tapes.<\/em> Or any time you have records destroyed.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a certain very literal respect, I suppose destroying those tapes does<\/em> compare to the CIA’s destruction of tapes. But in most other respects, I don’t think we’re served well when a senator compares the outcome of football games to CIA torture of terror suspects who were shipped to secret prisons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arlen Specter wants to get to the bottom of the Patriots’ spying scandal, which broke early this season. And he’s mad that the NFL erased the evidence that the Pats turned over: “That requires an explanation,” Specter said. “The N.F.L. has a very preferred status in our country with their antitrust exemption. The American people … <\/p>\n

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