{"id":21815,"date":"2026-04-24T12:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-tries-again-to-extend-contested-spy-law-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:22:25","slug":"mike-johnson-tries-again-to-extend-contested-spy-law-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-tries-again-to-extend-contested-spy-law-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Johnson tries again to extend contested spy law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed reauthorization of the so-called Section 702 law includes some new oversight and penalties for abuses of the spy authority&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/04\/23\/congress\/mike-johnson-702-surveillance-00889135\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed reauthorization of the so-called Section 702 law includes some new oversight and penalties for abuses of the spy authority&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}