{"id":8920,"date":"2013-06-21T16:48:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T16:48:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T16:48:09","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8920","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Opinion: NSA surveillance may be legal \u2014 but it\u2019s unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo Opinion: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/nsa-surveillance-may-be-legal--but-its-unconstitutional\/2013\/06\/21\/b9ddec20-d44d-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_story.html\">NSA surveillance may be legal \u2014 but it\u2019s unconstitutional<\/a> by Laura K. Donohue of Georgetown Law:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The National Security Agency\u2019s recently revealed surveillance programs undermine the purpose of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which was established to prevent this kind of overreach. They violate the Fourth Amendment\u2019s guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure. And they underscore the dangers of growing executive power.<\/p>\n<p>The intelligence community has a history of overreaching in the name of national security. In the mid-1970s, it came to light that, since the 1940s, the NSA had been collecting international telegraphic traffic from companies, in the process obtaining millions of Americans\u2019 telegrams that were unrelated to foreign targets. From 1940 to 1973, the CIA and the FBI engaged in covert mail-opening programs that violated laws prohibiting the interception or opening of mail. The agencies also conducted warrantless \u201csurreptitious entries,\u201d breaking into targets\u2019 offices and homes to photocopy or steal business records and personal documents. The Army Security Agency intercepted domestic radio communications. And the Army\u2019s CONUS program placed more than 100,000 people under surveillance, including lawmakers and civil rights leaders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8920\">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-8920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920","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=8920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}