{"id":16005,"date":"2015-02-19T11:34:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T16:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16005"},"modified":"2015-02-19T11:34:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T16:34:27","slug":"the-intercept-fbi-flouts-obama-directive-to-limit-gag-orders-on-national-security-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16005","title":{"rendered":"The Intercept: FBI Flouts Obama Directive to Limit Gag Orders on National Security Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Intercept: <a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/02\/19\/fbi-flouts-obama-directive-limit-gag-orders-national-security-letters\/\">FBI Flouts Obama Directive to Limit Gag Orders on National Security Letters<\/a> by Dan Froomkin:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite the post-Snowden spotlight on mass surveillance, the intelligence community\u2019s easiest end-run around the Fourth Amendment since 2001 has been something called a National Security Letter.<\/p>\n<p>FBI agents can demand that an Internet service provider, telephone company, or financial institution turn over its records on any number of people \u2014 without any judicial review whatsoever \u2014 simply by writing a letter that says the information is needed for national security purposes. The FBI at one point was cranking out over 50,000 such letters a year; by the latest count, it still issues about 60 a day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Intercept: FBI Flouts Obama Directive to Limit Gag Orders on National Security Letters by Dan Froomkin: Despite the post-Snowden spotlight on mass surveillance, the intelligence community\u2019s easiest end-run around the Fourth Amendment since 2001 has been something called a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16005\">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":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subpoenas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005","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=16005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16006,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005\/revisions\/16006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}