{"id":9998,"date":"2013-12-16T15:27:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T15:25:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T15:25:24","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9998","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Judge: NSA phone collection likely invalid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/judge-nsas-collecting-of-phone-records-is-likely-unconstitutional\/2013\/12\/16\/6e098eda-6688-11e3-a0b9-249bbb34602c_story.html?hpid=z1\">Judge: NSA phone collection likely invalid<\/a> by Ann E. Marimow:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A federal judge said the widespread collection of telephone records is likely unconstitutional, granting a request for a preliminary injunction that temporarily blocks the program.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon found that the lawsuit by activist Larry Klayman, the founder of Freedom Watch, has \u201cdemonstrated a substantial likelihood of success\u201d on the basis of Fourth Amendment privacy protections against unreasonable searches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>USA Today: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2013\/12\/16\/judge-nsa-surveillance-fourth-amendment\/4041995\/\">Federal judge rules against NSA spying<\/a> by Kevin Johnson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency&#8217;s controversial surveillance program that collects millions of Americans&#8217; telephone records may be unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>WaPo:U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled in a lawsuit brought by conservative activist Larry Klayman that the legal challenge to the massive surveillance program &#8212; disclosed in full earlier this year by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden \u2014 would likely succeed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9998\">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-9998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9998","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=9998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}