{"id":24713,"date":"2016-12-08T14:06:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T19:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24713"},"modified":"2016-12-08T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T19:06:11","slug":"big-think-edward-snowden-the-rule-41-amendment-returns-us-to-the-1760s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24713","title":{"rendered":"big think: Edward Snowden: The Rule 41 Amendment Returns Us to the 1760s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>big think: <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/natalie-shoemaker\/edward-snowden-believes-we-have-returned-to-the-1760s-under-the-amended-rule-41\">Edward Snowden: The Rule 41 Amendment Returns Us to the 1760s<\/a> by Natalie Showmaker:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Edward Snowden believes the amendments to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which regulates legal search and seizure, has returned us to the days when America was ruled by a tyrant. \u201cThe [FBI] is now openly issuing the general warrants that, in 1760, led John Adams to first dream of independence,\u201d he wrote in a tweet. For privacy advocates, like Snowden, this change flies in the face of the rights our founding fathers fought to secure. For law enforcement officials, this amendment is a necessary alteration which fits the digital age. For American citizens, it\u2019s a double-edge sword.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>big think: Edward Snowden: The Rule 41 Amendment Returns Us to the 1760s by Natalie Showmaker:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-f-r-crim-p-41"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24713","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=24713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24714,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24713\/revisions\/24714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}