{"id":25292,"date":"2017-01-11T12:46:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T17:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25292"},"modified":"2017-01-11T12:46:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T17:46:13","slug":"orange-county-register-editorial-dea-must-end-its-informant-program-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25292","title":{"rendered":"Orange County Register: Editorial: DEA must end its informant program now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orange County Register: Editorial: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/engaged-740658-airline-years.html\">DEA must end its informant program now<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The DEA and other law enforcement agencies face skewed priorities when they can search and seize property \u2014 and then keep the proceeds \u2014 without so much as probable cause or a warrant, much less a conviction. The DEA\u2019s Confidential Source Program does an end run around the Fourth Amendment and facilitates such abuses, with no assurances that it is effective or well managed. It should be eliminated immediately to prevent further waste of taxpayers\u2019 dollars and abuses of travelers\u2019 constitutional rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange County Register: Editorial: DEA must end its informant program now: The DEA and other law enforcement agencies face skewed priorities when they can search and seize property \u2014 and then keep the proceeds \u2014 without so much as probable &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25292\">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":[72,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture","category-informant-hearsay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25292","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=25292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25293,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25292\/revisions\/25293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}