{"id":641156,"date":"2026-08-10T04:30:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=838106"},"modified":"2026-08-10T04:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:30:46","slug":"esper-warns-senate-to-pass-clarity-act-for-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/esper-warns-senate-to-pass-clarity-act-for-national-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Esper Warns Senate to Pass CLARITY Act for National Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/clarity-act-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Clarity Act Text\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Mark Esper, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, stresses the CLARITY Act would extend Patriot Act provisions to digital assets, modernizing the identification and special measures apparatus against foreign institutions to target threat actors such as North Korea and criminal organizations. Mark Esper: CLARITY Act &#8216;Not Merely a Financial Services Bill&#8217; While the Digital Asset Market [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Esper, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, stresses the CLARITY Act would extend Patriot Act provisions to digital assets, modernizing the identification and special measures apparatus against foreign institutions to target threat actors such as North Korea and criminal organizations. Mark Esper: CLARITY Act &#8216;Not Merely a Financial Services Bill&#8217; While the Digital Asset Market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":641157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-641156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-regulation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}