{"id":10180,"date":"2014-01-09T11:41:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T11:41:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T11:41:33","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10180","title":{"rendered":"Politico: Feds try to block NSA plaintiffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/under-the-radar\/2014\/01\/feds-move-to-block-discovery-in-nsa-lawsuit-180857.html?hp=r13\">Feds try to block NSA plaintiffs<\/a> by Josh Gerstein:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Justice Department moved Wednesday night to block the plaintiffs in the most successful legal challenges to the National Security Agency&#8217;s call-tracking program from obtaining more details about how the surveillance effort operates.<\/p>\n<p>In a motion filed with U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon, government lawyers asked the judge to halt further proceedings before him while appeals go forward in a pair of lawsuits brought by conservative legal activist Larry Klayman. The suits led last month to Leon&#8217;s landmark ruling that the NSA&#8217;s call database, aimed at making it easier for the government to trace leads in potential terrorism cases, likely violated the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10180\">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-10180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10180","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=10180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}