{"id":9087,"date":"2013-07-19T18:12:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T18:12:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T18:12:08","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9087","title":{"rendered":"Wired: NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2013\/07\/spygate-snooping-standing\/\">NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say<\/a> by David Kravets:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama administration for the first time responded to a Spygate lawsuit, telling a federal judge the wholesale vacuuming up of all phone-call metadata in the United States is in the \u201cpublic interest,\u201d does not breach the constitutional rights of Americans and cannot be challenged in a court of law.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s response marks the first time the administration has officially answered one of at least four lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of a secret U.S. snooping program the Guardian newspaper disclosed last month. The administration\u2019s filing sets the stage for what is to be a lengthy legal odyssey \u2014 one likely to outlive the Obama presidency \u2014 that will define the privacy rights of Americans for years to come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9087\">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-9087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087","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=9087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}