{"id":390,"date":"2025-11-30T13:35:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T13:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/30\/senate-phone-records-limitations-risk-hampering-doj-probes-of-lawmakers\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T13:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T13:35:55","slug":"senate-phone-records-limitations-risk-hampering-doj-probes-of-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/30\/senate-phone-records-limitations-risk-hampering-doj-probes-of-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate phone records limitations risk hampering DOJ probes of lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"
A provision allowing lawsuits from 10 senators whose phone records were sought by former special counsel Jack Smith doesn\u2019t just tee up lucrative payouts, it could undermine future law enforcement investigations that touch on a member of the chamber. Tucked into a bill to reopen the government, the provision is retroactive to 2022 and allows…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A provision allowing lawsuits from 10 senators whose phone records were sought by former special counsel Jack Smith doesn\u2019t just tee up lucrative payouts, it could undermine future law enforcement i<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}