{"id":17748,"date":"2015-06-20T10:57:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T15:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17748"},"modified":"2015-06-20T11:57:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T16:57:52","slug":"the-hill-spy-court-clears-path-to-renewing-nsa-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17748","title":{"rendered":"The Hill: Spy court clears path to renewing NSA powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/245537-spy-court-clears-path-to-renewing-nsa-powers\">Spy court clears path to renewing NSA powers<\/a> by Julian Hattem: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The secretive federal court that oversees the nation\u2019s spies is laying the groundwork for temporarily reauthorizing the National Security Agency\u2019s (NSA) sweeping collection of U.S. phone records.<\/p>\n<p>In an order released on Friday, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court said that a brief lapse in some Patriot Act provisions would not bar the court from renewing the NSA&#8217;s powers. Although the court asserted its ability to renew the controversial NSA program, it has yet to issue an order giving a green light to the spy agency.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The court decided that a temporary lapse of Patriot Act powers did not handicap the NSA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: Spy court clears path to renewing NSA powers by Julian Hattem: The secretive federal court that oversees the nation\u2019s spies is laying the groundwork for temporarily reauthorizing the National Security Agency\u2019s (NSA) sweeping collection of U.S. phone records. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17748\">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-17748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17748","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=17748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17750,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17748\/revisions\/17750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}