{"id":6722,"date":"2012-02-23T15:04:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T00:08:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T15:01:18","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6722","title":{"rendered":"Wired.com: &#8220;DOJ Urges Supreme Court to Halt Challenge to Warrantless Eavesdropping&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired.com: Threat Level: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2012\/02\/scotus-fisa-amendments\/\">DOJ Urges Supreme Court to Halt Challenge to Warrantless Eavesdropping<\/a> by David Kravets:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to halt a legal challenge weighing the constitutionality of a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans\u2019 communications that Congress eventually legalized in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/intelligence.senate.gov\/laws\/pl110261.pdf\">FISA Amendments Act (.pdf)<\/a>, the subject of the lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and others, allows the government to electronically eavesdrop on Americans\u2019 phone calls and e-mails without a probable-cause warrant so long as one of the parties to the communication is outside the United States. The communications may be intercepted \u201cto acquire foreign intelligence information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The administration is asking the Supreme Court to review an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2011\/03\/warrantless-eavesdropping\/\">appellate decision<\/a> that said the nearly 4-year-old lawsuit could move forward. The government said the ACLU and a host of other groups don\u2019t have the legal standing to bring the case because they have no evidence they or their overseas clients are being targeted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6722\">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-6722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722","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=6722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}