{"id":9160,"date":"2013-07-29T16:11:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:11:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:11:51","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9160","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Editorial: How to reform the NSA&#8217;s metadata program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo Editorial: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/how-to-reform-the-nsas-metadata-program\/2013\/07\/28\/954e8ed8-f4a9-11e2-a2f1-a7acf9bd5d3a_story.html\">How to reform the NSA&#8217;s metadata program<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE DIRECTOR of national intelligence announced on July 19 that a court had renewed one of the government&#8217;s most controversial surveillance programs &#8211; the collection of a vast database of so-called metadata from Americans&#8217; phone calls. The phone metadata effort does not appear to be an obviously unconstitutional abuse of civil liberties. Yet at least two things should bother Americans about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9160\">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-9160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9160","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=9160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}