{"id":22811,"date":"2016-07-02T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22811"},"modified":"2016-07-02T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T15:08:00","slug":"the-intercept-secret-rules-make-it-pretty-easy-for-the-fbi-to-spy-on-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22811","title":{"rendered":"The Intercept: Secret Rules Make It Pretty Easy for the FBI to Spy on Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Intercept: <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/06\/30\/secret-rules-make-it-pretty-easy-for-the-fbi-to-spy-on-journalists\/\">Secret Rules Make It Pretty Easy for the FBI to Spy on Journalists<\/a> by Cora Currier:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SECRET FBI RULES allow agents to obtain journalists\u2019 phone records with approval from two internal officials \u2014 far less oversight than under normal judicial procedures.<\/p>\n<p>The classified rules, obtained by The Intercept and dating from 2013, govern the FBI\u2019s use of national security letters, which allow the bureau to obtain information about journalists\u2019 calls without going to a judge or informing the news organization being targeted. They have previously been released only in heavily redacted form.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Intercept: Secret Rules Make It Pretty Easy for the FBI to Spy on Journalists by Cora Currier: SECRET FBI RULES allow agents to obtain journalists\u2019 phone records with approval from two internal officials \u2014 far less oversight than under &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22811\">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-22811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22811","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=22811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22812,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22811\/revisions\/22812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}