{"id":21921,"date":"2016-04-29T07:06:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T12:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21921"},"modified":"2016-04-29T07:06:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T12:06:59","slug":"reason-com-the-fourth-amendment-and-the-fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree-new-at-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21921","title":{"rendered":"Reason.com: The Fourth Amendment and the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree (New at Reason)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reason.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/the-fourth-amendment-and-the-fruit-of-th\">The Fourth Amendment and the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree (New at Reason)<\/a> by Reason staff:<\/p>\n<p>The USA Freedom Act provides cover for unconstitutional searches of citizens.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Fourth Amendment was eloquently described by Justice Louis Brandeis as &#8220;the right to be let alone \u2014 the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brandeis&#8217; famous statement was made as a dissent in a case which upheld a conviction based on wiretapping, but eventually the Supreme Court came around to his side and ruled that the government required a warrant to obtain information from private phone conversations.<\/p>\n<p>But, Andrew Napolitano writes, &#8220;the super-secret court established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), reaffirmed by Congress last year under the so-called USA Freedom Act&#8221; undermines the right to be let alone: &#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason.com: The Fourth Amendment and the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree (New at Reason) by Reason staff: The USA Freedom Act provides cover for unconstitutional searches of citizens.<\/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-21921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21921","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=21921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21923,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21921\/revisions\/21923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}