{"id":15617,"date":"2015-01-27T08:35:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T13:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15617"},"modified":"2015-01-27T08:35:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T13:35:54","slug":"nytimes-documents-show-n-s-a-s-moves-on-surveillance-before-congresss-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15617","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: Documents Show N.S.A.\u2019s Moves on Surveillance Before Congress\u2019s Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/28\/us\/documents-show-nsas-wiretap-moves-before-congresss-approval.html?_r=0\">Documents Show N.S.A.\u2019s Moves on Surveillance Before Congress\u2019s Approval<\/a> by Charlie Savage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A federal judge ruled in 2007 that the U.S.A. Patriot Act empowered the National Security Agency to collect foreigners\u2019 emails and phone calls from domestic networks without prior judicial approval, newly declassified documents show.<\/p>\n<p>The documents \u2014 two rulings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court \u2014 fill in a chapter in the history of the N.S.A.\u2019s warrantless surveillance program. They show the agency\u2019s secret moves in the months before Congress authorized the spying by enacting the Protect America Act in August 2007.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: Documents Show N.S.A.\u2019s Moves on Surveillance Before Congress\u2019s Approval by Charlie Savage: WASHINGTON \u2014 A federal judge ruled in 2007 that the U.S.A. Patriot Act empowered the National Security Agency to collect foreigners\u2019 emails and phone calls from domestic &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15617\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15618,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617\/revisions\/15618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}