{"id":63039,"date":"2026-02-03T12:58:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63039"},"modified":"2026-02-03T12:58:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:58:45","slug":"wapo-homeland-security-is-targeting-americans-with-this-secretive-legal-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63039","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/2026\/02\/03\/homeland-security-administrative-subpoena\/\">Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon<\/a> by John Woodrow Cox (\u201cIn October, a retiree emailed a DHS attorney to urge mercy for an asylum seeker. Then DHS subpoenaed his Google account and sent investigators to his home.\u201d) Five hours after he sent the email came the subpoena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon by John Woodrow Cox (\u201cIn October, a retiree emailed a DHS attorney to urge mercy for an asylum seeker. Then DHS subpoenaed his Google account and sent investigators to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63039\">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":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subpoenas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63039","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=63039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63040,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63039\/revisions\/63040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}