{"id":15982,"date":"2015-02-18T15:34:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T20:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15982"},"modified":"2015-02-18T15:34:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T20:34:51","slug":"new-american-patriot-acts-illegal-section-215-due-to-expire-june-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15982","title":{"rendered":"New American: Patriot Act\u2019s Illegal Section 215 due to Expire June 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New American: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/usnews\/constitution\/item\/20147-patriot-acts-illegal-section-215-due-to-expire-june-1\">Patriot Act\u2019s Illegal Section 215 due to Expire June 1<\/a> by Bob Adelmann:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Section 215 of the Patriot Act is set to expire June 1, and each side in the upcoming battle to renew, reform, or let expire this unconstitutional abridgement of freedoms is rolling out its arguments. <\/p>\n<p>Section 215 is often referred to as the Patriot Act\u2019s \u201clibrary records\u201d provision because it allows the FBI to order a library or any other source to produce, without a warrant showing probable cause (as required under the Fourth Amendment), all \u201ctangible things\u201d belonging to its target of interest including \u201cbooks, records, papers, documents, and other items.\u201d That includes books borrowed and websites visited by the target while at the library. Niceties demanded by the Fourth Amendment are ignored in Section 215 as long as the FBI \u201cspecifies\u201d that its order is \u201cfor an authorized investigation \u2026 to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New American: Patriot Act\u2019s Illegal Section 215 due to Expire June 1 by Bob Adelmann: Section 215 of the Patriot Act is set to expire June 1, and each side in the upcoming battle to renew, reform, or let expire &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15982\">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":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subpoenas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982","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=15982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15983,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982\/revisions\/15983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}