{"id":10370,"date":"2014-02-11T17:32:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T17:29:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T17:29:01","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10370","title":{"rendered":"USNews: Rand Paul Will File NSA Class-Action Lawsuit Wednesday in D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What? He&#8217;s given up on Congress? Why not; the rest of America has:<\/p>\n<p>USNews: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/articles\/2014\/02\/11\/rand-paul-will-file-nsa-class-action-lawsuit-wednesday-in-dc?s_cid=rss:rand-paul-will-file-nsa-class-action-lawsuit-wednesday-in-dc\">Rand Paul Will File NSA Class-Action Lawsuit Wednesday in D.C.<\/a> by Steven Nelson:<\/p>\n<p>Ken Cuccinelli will serve as lead counsel for the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., announced in a Tuesday afternoon press release from his political action committee RAND PAC that he\u2019s following through with a promised class-action lawsuit against the National Security Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Paul will file the lawsuit alleging violations of Americans&#8217; Fourth Amendment rights in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if Paul\u2019s lawsuit will target the NSA\u2019s dragnet collection of phone records, its powerful Internet programs, or both.<\/p>\n<p>A senior Paul staffer working on the lawsuit told U.S. News in December Paul was considering challenging both the phone and Internet programs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10370\">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-10370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10370","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=10370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}