{"id":8344,"date":"2013-02-09T14:53:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T14:38:22","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8344","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes.com: Debating a Court to Vet Drone Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/09\/world\/a-court-to-vet-kill-lists.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;_r=0\">Debating a Court to Vet Drone Strikes<\/a> by Scott Shane:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Since 1978, a secret court in Washington has approved national security eavesdropping on American soil \u2014 operations that for decades had been conducted based on presidential authority alone. <\/p>\n<p>Now, in response to broad dissatisfaction with the hidden bureaucracy directing lethal drone strikes, there is an interest in applying the model of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court \u2014 created by Congress so that surveillance had to be justified to a federal judge \u2014 to the targeted killing of suspected terrorists, or at least of American suspects. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/proposal-to-give-federal-judges-a-role-in-drone-strikes-faces-hurdles\/2013\/02\/08\/66f53508-721a-11e2-8b8d-e0b59a1b8e2a_story.html\">Lawmakers propose giving federal judges role in drone strikes, but hurdles await<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8344\">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-8344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344","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=8344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}