{"id":9414,"date":"2013-09-09T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T22:21:10","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9414","title":{"rendered":"Techdirt: Former lawyer who oversaw years of Fourth Amendment violations by the FBI nominated for federal judge seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Techdirt: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/09\/09\/former-lawyer-who-oversaw-years-of-fourth-amendment-violations-by-the-fbi-nominated-for-federal-judge-seat\/\">Former lawyer who oversaw years of Fourth Amendment violations by the FBI nominated for federal judge seat<\/a> by Techdirt:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, this is the way the system works, apparently. If you&#8217;re linked with nearly a decade&#8217;s worth of surveillance abuses, not only won&#8217;t you be punished for your malfeasance, but you&#8217;ll be promoted to a lifelong position of greater power.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Ackerman at The Guardian has compiled an in-depth look at Valerie Caproni, former top lawyer for the FBI and current nominee for a federal judge position in the Southern District of New York. Nothing Ackerman&#8217;s dug up looks promising for plaintiffs running privacy-related cases through this district court if she&#8217;s approved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9414\">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-9414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414","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=9414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}