{"id":8828,"date":"2013-06-02T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T20:39:00","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8828","title":{"rendered":"MintPress: Justice Dept Pressured To Release Document Proving Fourth Amendment Rights Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MintPress: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/justice-dept-pressured-to-release-document-proving-fourth-amendment-rights-violations\/\">Justice Dept Pressured To Release Document Proving Fourth Amendment Rights Violations<\/a> under FISA by Katie Rucke:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A digital rights advocacy group is pushing for the release of a document that could shed light on the activities of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which for years has quietly authorized both the physical and electronic surveillance of people in the U.S. without their knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation is challenging the Department of Justice\u2019s reasons for keeping the court\u2019s decisions under lock and key. The group has requested the release of a secret document that details the government\u2019s interpretation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.<\/p>\n<p>The public gained knowledge of the document last year when Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) announced that the court had ruled \u201con at least one occasion\u201d that spying on American citizens, including under FISA, was \u201cunreasonable under the Fourth Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wyden didn\u2019t share any specific examples or details of how the government\u2019s surveillance was unlawful, which is why the Electronic Frontier Foundation decided to file a suit in district court to make the 86-page document public.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2013\/05\/29\/ron_wyden_doj_may_have_to_release_fisa_related_documents_demonstrating_excessive.html\">Slate four days ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8828\">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-8828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828","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=8828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}