{"id":7477,"date":"2012-07-24T08:43:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T08:43:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T08:43:10","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7477","title":{"rendered":"NSLs: New American: &#8220;Feds Sue Telecom for Fighting Warrantless Search&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New American: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/usnews\/constitution\/item\/12180-feds-sue-telecom-for-fighting-warrantless-search\">Feds Sue Telecom for Fighting Warrantless Search<\/a> by Michael Tennant:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Justice Department is suing a telecommunications company for challenging a request from the Federal Bureau of Investigation for customer information \u2014 despite the fact that the law authorizing the request explicitly permits such challenges.<\/p>\n<p>According to documents provided by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/work\">Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)<\/a>, which is representing the telecom, the company (whose name is one of the many redacted details in the documents) received a national security letter (NSL) in 2011. An NSL is essentially a self-issued search warrant whereby the FBI bypasses the Fourth Amendment and demands information about an individual without bothering to obtain a judge\u2019s consent \u2014 and forces the recipient of the letter to keep mum about it because disclosure would allegedly harm national security. NSLs were employed somewhat sparingly prior to 2001 but became widely used \u2014 and abused, as the Justice Department\u2019s inspector general reported in 2007 \u2014 after the misnamed Patriot Act loosened the requirements for issuing them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7477\">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-7477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477","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=7477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}