{"id":18106,"date":"2015-07-20T18:29:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T23:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18106"},"modified":"2015-07-20T18:29:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T23:29:50","slug":"american-thinker-feds-get-the-power-to-seize-medical-records-on-fishing-expedition-investigations-with-no-subpoena-from-a-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18106","title":{"rendered":"American Thinker: Feds Get the Power to Seize Medical Records on &#8216;Fishing Expedition&#8217; Investigations with No Subpoena from a Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Thinker: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2015\/07\/feds_get_the_power_to_seize_medical_records_on_fishing_expedition_investigations_with_no_subpoena_from_a_judge.html#ixzz3gTecZsiA\">Feds Get the Power to Seize Medical Records on &#8216;Fishing Expedition&#8217; Investigations with No Subpoena from a Judge<\/a> by Mark J. Fitzgibbons:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While focusing their resources and political energy on the NSA\u2019s mass collection of metadata, privacy advocates have neglected the most dangerous institutionalized violations of the Fourth Amendment: administrative subpoenas.<\/p>\n<p>Now a United States District Court judge in Texas has ruled for the Drug Enforcement Agency that an administrative subpoena may be used to search medical records. It was inevitable, given the march towards illegally nullifying the Fourth Amendment through use of these judge-less bureaucrat warrants authorized by Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Administrative subpoenas are issued unilaterally by government agencies &#8212; meaning without approval by neutral judges &#8212; and without probable cause stated under oath and affirmation as required by the Fourth Amendment. There are now 336 federal statutes authorizing administrative subpoenas, according to the Department of Justice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Thinker: Feds Get the Power to Seize Medical Records on &#8216;Fishing Expedition&#8217; Investigations with No Subpoena from a Judge by Mark J. Fitzgibbons:<\/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-18106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subpoenas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18106","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=18106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18107,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18106\/revisions\/18107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}