{"id":17012,"date":"2013-01-23T19:35:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T00:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17012"},"modified":"2013-01-23T19:35:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T00:35:34","slug":"paul-ryan-heckler-works-at-holder%e2%80%99s-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17012\/paul-ryan-heckler-works-at-holder%e2%80%99s-doj\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ryan Heckler Works at Holder\u2019s DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/01\/23\/meet-daniel-j-freeman-the-justice-dept-lawyer-who-booed-paul-ryan-at-the-inauguration\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Treacher<\/a> of The Daily Caller does a public service by compiling all the data points on the man who started the booing of Paul Ryan as the latter walked to Barack Obama\u2019s second inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Freeman, a civil service (i.e. technically non-political) hire at the Department of Justice\u2019s Voting Rights section, said on his Facebook page that he \u201cJust started the booing when Paul Ryan came out.\u201d\u00a0 Helpfully, Freeman gave his location as \u201cUnited States Capitol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sleuthing by the blogosphere netted biographical nuggets like Freeman\u2019s involvement in the Yale Law Democrats, and internships for liberal activist groups.\u00a0 Among his responsibilities was undermining the Bush Administration\u2019s national security strategy by challenging the state secrets privilege in court.\u00a0 He also helped defend terrorists at Guantanamo Bay.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re wondering when Freeman had time to learn federal election law, he didn\u2019t.\u00a0 But at Eric Holder\u2019s Justice Department, the relevant experience was met checking all the liberal activist boxes.<\/p>\n<p>And, thanks to civil service protection, Freeman will have his position for as long as he wants it, regardless of who becomes the Attorney General, or for that matter, President of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Treacher of The Daily Caller does a public service by compiling all the data points on the man who started the booing of Paul Ryan as the latter walked to Barack Obama\u2019s second inauguration. Dan Freeman, a civil service (i.e. technically non-political) hire at the Department of Justice\u2019s Voting Rights section, said on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1104,626,2198,1453,498,4007,739,802],"class_list":["post-17012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-activist","tag-civil-rights","tag-daily-caller","tag-department-of-justice","tag-eric-holder","tag-jim-treacher","tag-liberal","tag-paul-ryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17012","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17015,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17012\/revisions\/17015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}