{"id":9165,"date":"2013-07-30T13:32:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T13:32:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T13:32:35","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9165","title":{"rendered":"The Hill: Judge: Patriot Act snooping was accepted by phone companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/hillicon-valley\/technology\/314305-judge-no-company-has-fought-patriot-act-program#ixzz2aYEIxfyS\">Judge: Patriot Act snooping was accepted by phone companies<\/a> by Brendan Sasso:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Verizon and other telephone companies didn&#8217;t protest when a secret surveillance court demanded that they turn over records on all of their customers. <\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee leaders on Monday, Judge Reggie Walton of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court revealed that no telephone company or other service provider has ever resisted a court order under Section 215 of the Patriot Act.<\/p>\n<p>The provision allows the government to seize business records if they are &#8220;relevant&#8221; to a terrorism investigation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9165\">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-9165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165","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=9165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}