{"id":9314,"date":"2013-08-21T19:18:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T19:11:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T19:11:54","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9314","title":{"rendered":"NPR: NSA Culled Tens Of Thousands Of U.S. Emails Yearly, FISA Opinion Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2013\/08\/21\/214212847\/nsa-culled-tens-of-thousands-of-u-s-emails-yearly-fisa-opinion-says\">NSA Culled Tens Of Thousands Of U.S. Emails Yearly, FISA Opinion Says<\/a> by Bill Chappell: <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A secret federal court was surprised by the National Security Agency&#8217;s collection of thousands of emails and other digital messages between Americans, according to a court opinion released Wednesday. An opinion written by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court says the government misrepresented its surveillance efforts at least three times from 2008 to 2011. The FISA court ruled parts of the program to be unconstitutional and ordered them to be revised. The release of a key opinion from 2011 and other documents was authorized today by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, in response to requests from privacy advocates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>emptywheel: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2013\/08\/20\/how-nsa-bypassed-the-fourth-amendment-for-3-years\/#sthash.8ThjSBis.dpuf\">How NSA Bypassed the Fourth Amendment for 3 Years<\/a>:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On October 3, 2011, the FISA Court deemed some of the NSA\u2019s collections to violate the Fourth Amendment. Since Ron Wyden first declassified vague outlines of that ruling a year ago, we\u2019ve been trying to sort through precisely what practice that decision curtailed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8211; See more at: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9314\">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-9314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314","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=9314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}