{"id":719,"date":"2007-01-17T17:09:11","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T18:04:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-17T17:04:31","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"Bush Administration will accede to the FISA Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bush Administration has agreed today to allow the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to do its job and monitor surveillence, according to the NYTimes.com, and posted within the last hour: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/17\/washington\/18spycnd.html?hp&amp;ex=1169096400&amp;en=c276e8d31a956911&amp;ei=5094&amp;partner=homepage\">White House Says Judiciary Will Monitor Spy Program<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Bush administration, in what appears to be a concession to its critics, said today it will allow an independent court to monitor its warrantless electronic-eavesdropping program.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to supervise anti-terrorism wiretapping within the United States, will supervise the eavesdropping operations from now on.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general sought to portray the administration\u2019s change of posture as anything but grudging. \u201cIn the spring of 2005 &#8212; well before the first press account disclosing the existence of the Terrorist Surveillance Program &#8212; the administration began exploring options\u201d for seeking such approval, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=719\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}