{"id":13786,"date":"2012-04-16T11:08:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13786"},"modified":"2012-04-16T15:55:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T19:55:41","slug":"conrad-black-and-i-fight-rogue-prosecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13786\/conrad-black-and-i-fight-rogue-prosecutors\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrad Black and I Fight Rogue Prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/16\/conrad-black-fights-rogue-pros\" target=\"_blank\">blog about this <\/a>at the American Spectator today: Conrad Black has a great essay against out-of-control federal prosecutors, in which he highlights a case I wrote about a few weeks ago. \u00a0(Sorry for the internal links, but they are well worth following. Please do check out my post and the Black column.)<\/p>\n<p>What I want to note here is that these stories are a continuing manifestation of a problem of overcriminalization and rogue prosecution that I have written about here at CFIF several times. See<a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1156-the-feds-criminalize-ordinary-life\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10014\/bureaucrats-on-armed-power-trips\/\">here<\/a>. \u00a0This is an important issue. It&#8217;s especially important when lawless people, like those now in charge, run the top ranks of the Justice Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I blog about this at the American Spectator today: Conrad Black has a great essay against out-of-control federal prosecutors, in which he highlights a case I wrote about a few weeks ago. \u00a0(Sorry for the internal links, but they are well worth following. Please do check out my post and the Black column.) What I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13795,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786\/revisions\/13795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}