{"id":2792,"date":"2014-11-19T14:12:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T19:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=2792"},"modified":"2015-04-24T20:47:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T00:47:56","slug":"mail-surveillance-the-time-for-secrecy-has-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/mail-surveillance-the-time-for-secrecy-has-passed\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail Surveillance: The Time For Secrecy Has Passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2782\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Postal-Inspection-Service.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2782\" data-attachment-id=\"2782\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/the-postal-service-surveillance-controversy-questions-need-answered\/postal-inspection-service\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Postal-Inspection-Service.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"275,275\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Postal Inspection Service\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Source: Smithsonian National Postal Museum&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Postal-Inspection-Service.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Postal-Inspection-Service.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2782\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Postal-Inspection-Service.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Smithsonian National Postal Museum\" width=\"275\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Postal-Inspection-Service.jpg 275w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Postal-Inspection-Service-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Postal-Inspection-Service-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Smithsonian National Postal Museum<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Recent <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2014\/11\/04\/the-postal-service-mail-tracking-controv\">news<\/a> that federal authorities approved 49,000 instances of mail surveillance in 2013 is disturbing. Not only was this a huge jump from the usual average number of 8,000 annual approvals, but according to the Postal Service\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/h\/\">Inspector General<\/a>, more than one-fifth of the surveillance requests from law enforcement agencies were inappropriately approved&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/11\/18\/mail-surveillance-the-time-for-secrecy-has-passed\/\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent news that federal authorities approved 49,000 instances of mail surveillance in 2013 is disturbing. Not only was this a huge jump from the usual average number of 8,000 annual approvals, but according to the Postal Service\u2019s Inspector General, more than one-fifth of the surveillance requests from law enforcement agencies were inappropriately approved&#8230; (read more)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[65,161,162],"tags":[173],"class_list":["post-2792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governmental-entities","category-postal-service","category-privacy","tag-daily-caller"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-J2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2797,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}