{"id":2856,"date":"2013-06-11T08:46:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T12:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2013-06-11T08:46:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T12:46:16","slug":"why-the-gop-isnt-attacking-obama-over-data-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/06\/11\/why-the-gop-isnt-attacking-obama-over-data-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the GOP Isn&#8217;t Attacking Obama Over Data Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn-media.nationaljournal.com\/?controllerName=image&amp;action=get&amp;id=13428&amp;format=homepage_lead\"><\/p>\n<p>When news broke that the Internal Revenue Service was targeting conservative groups, Republicans pounced on the revelations. House Speaker John Boehner memorably suggested that someone face prison time over it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153My question isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t about who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to resign,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said last month. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My question is about who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to jail over this scandal.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>But not all controversial government programs are created equal. The recent reports, for example, that showed the breadth of the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s secret data collection have congressional Republicans divided.<\/p>\n<p>via Homepage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/daily\/why-the-gop-isn-t-attacking-obama-over-data-collection-20130610\">http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/daily\/why-the-gop-isn-t-attacking-obama-over-data-collection-20130610<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When news broke that the Internal Revenue Service was targeting conservative groups, Republicans pounced on the revelations. House Speaker John Boehner memorably suggested that someone face prison time over it. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My question isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t about who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to resign,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said last month. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My question is about who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to jail over this scandal.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d But not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/06\/11\/why-the-gop-isnt-attacking-obama-over-data-collection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why the GOP Isn&#8217;t Attacking Obama Over Data Collection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[114,6,306],"class_list":["post-2856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-homepage","tag-ifttt","tag-michael-catalini"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-K4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}