{"id":17218,"date":"2015-05-12T12:57:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T17:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17218"},"modified":"2015-05-12T12:57:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T17:57:18","slug":"wapo-why-the-ruling-against-the-nsas-phone-records-program-could-have-huge-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17218","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Why the ruling against the NSA\u2019s phone records program could have huge implications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2015\/05\/08\/why-the-ruling-against-the-nsas-phone-records-program-could-have-huge-implications\/\">Why the ruling against the NSA\u2019s phone records program could have huge implications<\/a> by Andrea Peterson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A federal appeals court ruling that the National Security Agency&#8217;s collection of millions of Americans\u2019 phone records is illegal could undercut more than just that program.<\/p>\n<p>The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the phone records program violated the law used to authorize it, the USA Patriot Act. The program had been approved by the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and was first reported on by USA Today in 2006, but documents from former government contractor Edward Snowden revealed the program continued under President Obama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Why the ruling against the NSA\u2019s phone records program could have huge implications by Andrea Peterson: A federal appeals court ruling that the National Security Agency&#8217;s collection of millions of Americans\u2019 phone records is illegal could undercut more than &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17218\">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":[31,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa","category-national-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17218","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=17218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17219,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17218\/revisions\/17219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}