{"id":11280,"date":"2014-04-26T17:37:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T22:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11280"},"modified":"2014-04-26T17:37:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T22:37:56","slug":"wapo-surveillance-court-rejected-verizon-challenge-to-nsa-calls-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11280","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Surveillance court rejected Verizon challenge to NSA calls program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/surveillance-court-rejected-verizon-challenge-to-nsa-calls-program\/2014\/04\/25\/78d430c2-ccc2-11e3-93eb-6c0037dde2ad_story.html\">Surveillance court rejected Verizon challenge to NSA calls program<\/a> by Ellen Nakashima:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Verizon in January filed a legal challenge to the constitutionality of the National Security Agency\u2019s program that collects billions of Americans\u2019 call-detail records, but a surveillance court rejected it, according to newly declassified documents and individuals with knowledge of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>In denying the phone company\u2019s petition in March, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Rosemary M. Collyer embraced the arguments put forth by the government that the program is constitutional in light of a <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=3033726127475530815&#038;q=smith+v.+maryland&#038;hl=en&#038;as_sdt=1006\">Supreme Court decision in 1979<\/a> that Americans have no expectation of privacy in dialing phone numbers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Surveillance court rejected Verizon challenge to NSA calls program by Ellen Nakashima: Verizon in January filed a legal challenge to the constitutionality of the National Security Agency\u2019s program that collects billions of Americans\u2019 call-detail records, but a surveillance court &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11280\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11281,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280\/revisions\/11281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}