{"id":10103,"date":"2013-12-30T08:25:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T07:34:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T07:34:15","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10103","title":{"rendered":"eff.org: 2013 in Review: EFF Convinces Court to Declare National Security Letters Unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>eff.org: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2013\/12\/2013-review-eff-convinces-court-declare-national-secruity-letters-unconstitutional\">2013 in Review: EFF Convinces Court to Declare National Security Letters Unconstitutional &#8211; President&#8217;s Panel Agrees<\/a> by Matt Zimmerman:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a banner year, one of EFF&#8217;s court victories stands out: 2013 is the year EFF took a huge step towards taking out a piece of the USA PATRIOT Act. In the spring, we convinced a federal district judge to strike down as unconstitutional a National Security Letter (NSL) statute. And we got a big vote of support on December 20 when the President\u2019s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies called for the banning of NSLs in their current form, stating that it was \u201cunable to identify a principled reason why NSLs should be issued by FBI officials\u201d when similar processes must issue from judges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[One of multiple EFF posts over the last week about 2013.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10103\">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-10103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103","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=10103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}