{"id":17134,"date":"2015-05-07T17:17:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T22:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17134"},"modified":"2015-05-07T17:17:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T22:17:05","slug":"wapo-second-circuit-rules-mostly-symbolically-that-current-text-of-section-215-doesnt-authorize-bulk-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17134","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Second Circuit rules, mostly symbolically, that current text of Section 215 doesn\u2019t authorize bulk surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2015\/05\/07\/second-circuit-rules-mostly-symbolically-that-current-text-of-section-215-doesnt-authorize-bulk-surveillance\/\">Second Circuit rules, mostly symbolically, that current text of Section 215 doesn\u2019t authorize bulk surveillance<\/a> by Orin Kerr: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Edward Snowden\u2019s biggest leak was that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court had interpreted Section 215 of the Patriot Act to authorize bulk collection of everyone\u2019s phone records. This was astonishing news, as nothing on the face of the face of the statute suggested it had that anything like that broad a reach. Legal challenges followed, on both statutory and constitutional grounds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Second Circuit rules, mostly symbolically, that current text of Section 215 doesn\u2019t authorize bulk surveillance by Orin Kerr: Edward Snowden\u2019s biggest leak was that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court had interpreted Section 215 of the Patriot Act to authorize &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17134\">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-17134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17134","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=17134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17135,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17134\/revisions\/17135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}