{"id":36683,"date":"2019-03-06T14:05:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T19:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36683"},"modified":"2019-03-06T14:05:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T19:05:41","slug":"washington-examiner-the-nsa-stopped-collecting-bulk-phone-data-and-nothing-bad-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36683","title":{"rendered":"Washington Examiner: The NSA stopped collecting bulk phone data, and nothing bad happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Examiner: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/the-nsa-stopped-collecting-bulk-phone-data-and-nothing-bad-happened\">The NSA stopped collecting bulk phone data, and nothing bad happened<\/a> by Dan King:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Civil liberties activists have long argued that bulk collection of Americans\u2019 phone records doesn\u2019t make us any safer. Now, we\u2019ve got pretty clear evidence that\u2019s the case.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Murry, an adviser to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., told the Lawfare Podcast on Saturday that for the last six months the Trump administration \u201chasn\u2019t actually been using\u201d the phone record collection program authorized by the 2015 USA FREEDOM Act. He added that he\u2019s unsure if the administration will ask Congress to reauthorize this program at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>If Murry is telling the truth about the administration\u2019s non-use of the phone metadata collection program, then it\u2019s even more obvious proof that such a program does more to damage civil liberties than it does to protect national security. Clearly, the administration shouldn\u2019t ask Congress to reauthorize this program.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Examiner: The NSA stopped collecting bulk phone data, and nothing bad happened by Dan King:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36683","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=36683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36684,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36683\/revisions\/36684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}