{"id":17038,"date":"2015-04-30T08:38:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T13:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17038"},"modified":"2015-04-30T08:38:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T13:38:37","slug":"american-thinker-homeland-chief-fourth-amendment-beyond-my-competence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17038","title":{"rendered":"American Thinker: Homeland Chief: Fourth Amendment &#8216;Beyond My Competence&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Thinker: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/homeland_chief_fourth_amendment_beyond_my_competence_.html#ixzz3YndBa8u0\">Homeland Chief: Fourth Amendment &#8216;Beyond My Competence&#8217;<\/a> by Mark J. Fitzgibbons:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, a man with sweeping power to invade the property rights and privacy of every American using judge-less warrants to search and seize records, has a Fourth Amendment problem: He doesn\u2019t really know it.<\/p>\n<p>As reported at Mediaite, Senator Rand Paul grilled Secretary Johnson at a hearing about government\u2019s obtaining records from telephone companies without a warrant, which seems on its face to violate the Fourth Amendment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cRight off the bat, Paul, a 2016 presidential candidate, asked Johnson if he believes the Fourth Amendment \u2018applies to third party records,\u2019 specifically those of telephone companies. Johnson said that question is \u2018beyond my competence as secretary of homeland security\u2019 to answer intelligently.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Thinker: Homeland Chief: Fourth Amendment &#8216;Beyond My Competence&#8217; by Mark J. Fitzgibbons: Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, a man with sweeping power to invade the property rights and privacy of every American using judge-less warrants to search and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17038\">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":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-third-party-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17038","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=17038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17039,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17038\/revisions\/17039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}