{"id":13497,"date":"2014-09-30T15:25:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T20:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13497"},"modified":"2014-09-30T15:25:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T20:25:24","slug":"courthouse-news-service-us-defends-legality-of-nsa-spying-that-it-wont-explain-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13497","title":{"rendered":"Courthouse News Service: US Defends Legality of NSA Spying That It Won&#8217;t Explain Further"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courthouse News Service: <a href=\"Courthouse News Service: US Defends Legality of NSA Spying That It Won't Explain Further\">US Defends Legality of NSA Spying That It Won&#8217;t Explain Further<\/a> by Arvin Temkar:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) &#8211; Even if there were evidence that a domestic spying program was unconstitutional, interference by the courts could cause &#8220;exceptionally grave damage&#8221; to national security, the government told a federal judge.<\/p>\n<p>Urging U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White to deny the plaintiffs partial summary judgment and instead rule for the government, the Monday filing from the Department of Justice says that the National Security Administration&#8217;s information-collecting techniques do not violate the Fourth Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>The filing comes in the case Jewel v. NSA, a high-profile domestic spying case filed in 2008 by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It stems from a 2006 revelation by a former AT&#038;T technician that the company was routing copies of emails, Web browsing data and other Internet information to a secret NSA-controlled location in San Francisco.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courthouse News Service: US Defends Legality of NSA Spying That It Won&#8217;t Explain Further by Arvin Temkar: OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) &#8211; Even if there were evidence that a domestic spying program was unconstitutional, interference by the courts could cause &#8220;exceptionally &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13497\">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-13497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497","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=13497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13498,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497\/revisions\/13498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}