{"id":17307,"date":"2015-05-19T12:39:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T17:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17307"},"modified":"2015-05-19T12:39:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T17:39:33","slug":"the-atlantic-how-the-dea-harasses-amtrak-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17307","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic: How the DEA Harasses Amtrak Passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/05\/how-the-dea-harasses-amtrak-passengers\/393230\/\">How the DEA Harasses Amtrak Passengers<\/a> by Conor Friedersdorf:<\/p>\n<p>A mathematician describes how his rights were apparently violated during a trip to Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier this year, Aaron Heuser of Eugene, Oregon, had to travel to Washington, D.C. The trip had two purposes: The 37-year-old mathematician was officially leaving his job at National Institutes of Health and starting a new position at a private firm. Since he is terrified of flying he booked himself a sleeper car on Amtrak. Upon reaching Reno, Nevada, there was an unexpected knock at his door. \u201cThere was a DEA badge on the window,\u201d he said. \u201cHaving a good reason to be making this trip and being a law abiding citizen, I opened the door and politely asked if there was a problem. The officer asked if I was Aaron Heuser, and then asked to see my ticket. He then told me that there were many red flags on my trip, mainly that I had a sleeper car, was traveling alone, and did not check my luggage.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic: How the DEA Harasses Amtrak Passengers by Conor Friedersdorf: A mathematician describes how his rights were apparently violated during a trip to Washington, D.C. Earlier this year, Aaron Heuser of Eugene, Oregon, had to travel to Washington, D.C. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17307\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17307","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=17307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17308,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17307\/revisions\/17308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}