{"id":16658,"date":"2015-04-08T13:56:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16658"},"modified":"2015-04-08T13:56:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:56:58","slug":"usa-today-u-s-secretly-tracked-billions-of-calls-for-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16658","title":{"rendered":"USA Today: U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2015\/04\/07\/dea-bulk-telephone-surveillance-operation\/70808616\/\">U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades<\/a> by Brian Heath:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. government started keeping secret records of Americans&#8217; international telephone calls nearly a decade before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, harvesting billions of calls in a program that provided a blueprint for the far broader National Security Agency surveillance that followed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today: U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades by Brian Heath: The U.S. government started keeping secret records of Americans&#8217; international telephone calls nearly a decade before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, harvesting billions of calls in a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16658\">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-16658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16658","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=16658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16659,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16658\/revisions\/16659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}