{"id":10039,"date":"2013-12-22T09:36:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T09:36:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T09:36:21","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10039","title":{"rendered":"NYT Editorial: Bad Times for Big Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT Editorial: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/22\/opinion\/sunday\/bad-times-for-big-brother.html?hp&amp;rref=opinion&amp;_r=0\">Bad Times for Big Brother<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It has been a long week for the National Security Agency. Last Monday, a federal judge ruled for the first time that the agency\u2019s continuing sweep of Americans\u2019 phone data \u2014 a once-secret program legally sanctioned for seven years and illegally conducted for five years before that \u2014 was very likely unconstitutional. Judge Richard Leon denounced the agency\u2019s activities in collecting data on all Americans\u2019 phone calls as \u201calmost Orwellian.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10039\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}