{"id":964,"date":"2006-03-15T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=964"},"modified":"2006-03-15T21:10:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T21:10:00","slug":"cheat-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=964","title":{"rendered":"Cheat Sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine, at Obsidian Wings, writes:<\/p>\n<ul>The current debates over the Feingold resolution and the NSA surveillance program &amp; the ongoing debate over the torture scandals involve a lot of convoluted legal arguments about executive power. It can get really difficult and frustrating for non-lawyers to sort them all out. (Actually it can be that way for lawyers too, but lawyers get three years of instruction in legalese &amp; then get paid to read and write it for a living, It's a lot worse for everyone else.) <\/p>\n<p>To make this a little easier, I've prepared a <a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2006\/03\/cheat_sheet.html\">handy-dandy little guide<\/a> for decoding the administration's arguments and reassurances on these topics. <\/ul>\n<p>Go read: Understanding the Bush Administration's Statements About Executive Power And Treatment of Prisoners in Nine Easy Steps.<\/p>\n<p>Update: And I put together a handy on-line automated version of it, <a href=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/foo.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine, at Obsidian Wings, writes: The current debates over the Feingold resolution and the NSA surveillance program &amp; the ongoing debate over the torture scandals involve a lot of convoluted legal arguments about executive power. It can get really difficult and frustrating for non-lawyers to sort them all out. (Actually it can be that way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}