{"id":10567,"date":"2014-03-21T06:28:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T06:07:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T06:07:54","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10567","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic: Why Isn&#8217;t the Fourth Amendment Classified as Top Secret?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2014\/03\/why-isnt-the-fourth-amendment-classified-as-top-secret\/284439\/\">Why Isn&#8217;t the Fourth Amendment Classified as Top Secret?<\/a> by Conor Friedersdorf:<\/p>\n<p>Think how much useful information its text and the case law surrounding it tell America&#8217;s enemies.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Framers are usually considered patriots. Yet they gave traitors and criminals in their midst such powerful knowledge about concealing evidence of skullduggery! Today every terrorist with access to a pocket Constitution is privy to the same text. And thanks to the Supreme Court&#8217;s practice of publishing its opinions, al-Qaeda need only have an Internet connection to gain a very nuanced, specific understanding of how the Fourth Amendment is applied in individual cases, how it constrains law enforcement, and how to exploit those limits.<\/p>\n<p>Such were my thoughts Friday at UCLA Law School, where Stewart Baker, an attorney who worked in the Department of Homeland Security during the Bush Administration, participated in a debate about Edward Snowden. Some of his remarks focused on the NSA whistleblower&#8217;s professed desire to trigger a debate among Americans, many of whom think it&#8217;s their right to weigh in on all policy controversies. <\/p>\n<p>Baker disagrees. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Come on: Even wily criminals don&#8217;t get a pass under the Fourth Amendment. This is a good story for those who don&#8217;t know how easy it is for the police to comply with the Fourth Amendment with minimal planning and the slightest respect for privacy. Reality is different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10567\">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-10567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10567","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=10567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}