{"id":9500,"date":"2013-09-26T18:07:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T18:07:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T18:07:51","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9500","title":{"rendered":"SJ Mercury News: Quoted: Scalia, privacy and \u2018blah blah blah\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SJ Mercury News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconbeat.com\/2013\/09\/26\/quoted-scalia-privacy-and-blah-blah-blah\/\">Quoted: Scalia, privacy and \u2018blah blah blah\u2019<\/a> by Levi Sumagaysay:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere\u2019s a generalized right of privacy that comes from penumbras and emanations, blah blah blah, garbage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court Justice, on a 1967 Supreme Court ruling that decided the Fourth Amendment right to unreasonable search and seizure extended to wiretaps. (Katz v. United States) In a speech Wednesday to the Northern Virginia Technology Council, Scalia said he thought the high court would ultimately have to decide the constitutionality of National Security Agency wiretapping. And he doesn\u2019t think that\u2019s a good thing. \u201cWhether the NSA can do the stuff it\u2019s been doing \u2026 which used to be a question for the people \u2026 will now be resolved by the branch of government that knows the least about the issues in question, the branch that knows the least about the extent of the threat against which the wiretapping is directed,\u201d the justice said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9500\">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-9500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500","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=9500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}