{"id":3238,"date":"2009-07-31T09:35:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T15:49:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T15:49:43","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3238","title":{"rendered":"NTY:  Warrantless wiretaps got too little review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On NYTimes.com within the last 45 minutes:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/11\/us\/11nsa.html?_r=1&amp;hp\">Report Says Wiretaps Got Too Little Legal Review<\/a> on the Bush Administration&#8217;s warrantless wiretaps:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Bush administration had defended the wiretapping program, one of the government\u2019s most highly classified operations to have been disclosed in recent years, as a vital intelligence-gathering tool that gave intelligence officials the ability to respond more quickly to possible terrorist threats. <\/p>\n<p>But the independent auditors, reviewing the program at the request of Congress, found that other intelligence tools used in assessing threats provided more timely information and that the value of the program was unclear.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that while the program obtained information that \u201chad value in some counterterrorism investigations, it generally played a limited role in the F.B.I.\u2019s overall counterterrorism efforts.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3238\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}