{"id":12135,"date":"2014-06-21T09:19:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T14:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12135"},"modified":"2014-06-21T09:19:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T14:19:21","slug":"nyt-editorial-the-house-actually-did-something-about-warrantless-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12135","title":{"rendered":"NYT Editorial: The House Actually Did Something About Warrantless Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT Editorial: <a href=\"http:\/\/takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/20\/the-house-actually-did-something-about-warrantless-surveillance\/?rref=opinion&#038;module=Ribbon&#038;version=context&#038;region=Header&#038;action=click&#038;contentCollection=Opinion&#038;pgtype=Blogs\">The House Actually Did Something About Warrantless Surveillance<\/a> by Andrew Rosenthal: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an unusual display of unity from the divided, do-nothing House, a bipartisan group of lawmakers pushed through a bill that basically says, yes, the Fourth Amendment applies to electronic communications, too.<\/p>\n<p>The measure, whose chief sponsors are Jim Sensenbrenner, Republican of Wisconsin, Zoe Lofgren, Democrat of California, and Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, passed by a vote of 293-to-123 late Thursday night. It bars the National Security Agency, the Central intelligence Agency and other spy agencies from examining without a warrant Americans\u2019 emails and other communications that were swept up into databases created to target foreigners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT Editorial: The House Actually Did Something About Warrantless Surveillance by Andrew Rosenthal: In an unusual display of unity from the divided, do-nothing House, a bipartisan group of lawmakers pushed through a bill that basically says, yes, the Fourth Amendment &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12135\">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-12135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135","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=12135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12136,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135\/revisions\/12136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}