{"id":17517,"date":"2015-06-02T15:54:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T20:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17517"},"modified":"2015-06-02T15:54:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T20:54:21","slug":"wapo-bill-ending-nsa-phone-data-collection-heads-to-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17517","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Bill ending NSA phone data collection heads to Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/senate-moves-ahead-with-retooling-of-us-surveillance-powers\/2015\/06\/02\/28f5e1ce-092d-11e5-a7ad-b430fc1d3f5c_story.html\">Bill ending NSA phone data collection heads to Obama<\/a> by Mike DeBonis &#038; Ellen Nakashima:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Senate passed a significant remake of U.S. surveillance powers Tuesday, after an internal split among Republicans delayed consideration of the bill and caused the legal authority for key counterterrorism programs to temporarily expire.<\/p>\n<p>The USA Freedom Act, a bill that would end the National Security Agency\u2019s practice of collecting troves of call data from telephone companies, passed on a 67 to 32 vote. It would instead mandate a six-month transition to a system in which the data would remain in private hands but could be searched on a case-by-case basis under a court order.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Bill ending NSA phone data collection heads to Obama by Mike DeBonis &#038; Ellen Nakashima: The Senate passed a significant remake of U.S. surveillance powers Tuesday, after an internal split among Republicans delayed consideration of the bill and caused &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17517\">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-17517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17517","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=17517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17518,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17517\/revisions\/17518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}