{"id":256,"date":"2007-03-27T11:50:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T16:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=256"},"modified":"2007-03-27T11:50:43","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T16:50:43","slug":"news-and-analysis-32707","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (3\/27\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">As Congress finds its sea legs and begins to take action against national security letter abuses\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/17810645\/\"><font size=\"2\">Senate Looks Into Improper FBI Spying<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Associated Press)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6the media now reveals Big Brother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s abuse of the secret FISA court system in providing inaccurate information for the search warrants\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/26\/AR2007032602073.html\"><font size=\"2\">FBI Provided Inaccurate Data for Surveillance Warrants<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Washington Post)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and his interference in the economic liberty of ordinary American citizens: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/26\/AR2007032602088.html\"><font size=\"2\">Ordinary Customers Flagged as Terrorists<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Washington Post)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Middle East expert Juan Cole gives a news round up of important events dealing with Iraq, including his analysis of why the Iraqi government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s current amnesty plan toward former Baathists will fail: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2007\/03\/green-zone-takes-rocket-fire-new-offer.html\"><font size=\"2\">Green Zone Takes Rocket Fire, New Offer of Jobs to Baathists<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Informed Comment)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Mohsin Hamid argues that withdrawing support for General Musharraf is in both Pakistan and America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interests: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/27\/opinion\/27mohsin.html?pagewanted=print\"><font size=\"2\">Pakistan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Silent Majority Is Not to Be Feared<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (New York Times)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Muslims in Thailand&#8217;s south complain that they have not seen the government&#8217;s &#8220;soft&#8221; policy against sectarian violence in evidence, nor has the violence on either side abated:<br \/>\n<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0327\/p06s01-woap.htm\"><font size=\"2\">Violence Tests Soft Strategy in Thailand&#8217;s Muslim South<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Christian Science Monitor)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Egypt sinks further into the quicksand of authoritarianism as national referendum \u00e2\u20ac\u201c marred by allegations of ballot stuffing and voter intimidation \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in favor constitutional \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcreforms\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 passes: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/26\/AR2007032601656_pf.html\"><font size=\"2\">Apathy Marks Constitutional Vote in Egypt<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Washington Post)<\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Congress finds its sea legs and begins to take action against national security letter abuses\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Senate Looks Into Improper FBI Spying (Associated Press) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6the media now reveals Big Brother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s abuse of the secret FISA court system in providing inaccurate information for the search warrants\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 FBI Provided Inaccurate Data for Surveillance Warrants (Washington Post) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}