{"id":9253,"date":"2013-08-13T07:38:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T07:38:09","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9253","title":{"rendered":"Constitution Center: How NSA surveillance endangers the Fourth Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Constitution Center: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.constitutioncenter.org\/2013\/08\/how-nsa-surveillance-endangers-the-fourth-amendment\/\">How NSA surveillance endangers the Fourth Amendment<\/a> by Jonathan Hafetz:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Fourth Amendment also interposes an independent judiciary between the government and its citizenry\u2014requiring that the government obtain a warrant by making this individualized showing before a federal judge.  Review by a neutral and independent decisionmaker is crucial to the Madisonian system of checks and balances, designed to prevent government overreaching and safeguard individual freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>The NSA surveillance programs undermine these protections, threatening to render them a dead letter for all \u201cforeign intelligence information\u201d\u2014a category broadly defined to include information not only about terrorism, but also about intelligence activities, national defense, and even the \u201cforeign affairs\u201d of the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9253\">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-9253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253","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=9253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}