{"id":17043,"date":"2015-05-01T10:28:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T15:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17043"},"modified":"2015-05-01T10:28:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T15:28:38","slug":"just-security-usa-freedom-and-the-surveillance-reform-that-almost-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17043","title":{"rendered":"Just Security: USA Freedom and the Surveillance Reform That Almost Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just Security: <a href=\"http:\/\/justsecurity.org\/22624\/usa-freedom-surveillance-reform\/\">USA Freedom and the Surveillance Reform That Almost Was<\/a> by Elizabeth Goitein:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Committee markups can be a dry affair, an opportunity for political showboating, or both. Yesterday\u2019s markup of the USA Freedom Act in the House Judiciary Committee was neither. It was a rare and fascinating discussion among members wrestling with whether they should vote for an important amendment they all supported \u2014 and risk tanking a bill many support as well.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the background: the USA Freedom Act undertakes to end the bulk collection of Americans\u2019 business records under foreign intelligence authorities. Although observers have differing views over how effectively it does that, a solid bipartisan majority of the House supports ending bulk collection. The bill, however, doesn\u2019t address the other authorities or rules \u2014 like Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) and Executive Order 12,333 \u2014 under which the NSA conducts much larger surveillance programs that sweep in vast amounts of Americans\u2019 communications and data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just Security: USA Freedom and the Surveillance Reform That Almost Was by Elizabeth Goitein: Committee markups can be a dry affair, an opportunity for political showboating, or both. Yesterday\u2019s markup of the USA Freedom Act in the House Judiciary Committee &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17043\">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-17043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17043","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=17043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17045,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17043\/revisions\/17045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}