{"id":9534,"date":"2013-10-01T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T11:44:00","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9534","title":{"rendered":"Slate.com: The Dragnet\u2019s Day in Court | The case that could destroy\u2014or legitimize\u2014mass NSA telephone surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slate.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/future_tense\/2013\/09\/basaaly_moalin_s_defense_team_takes_on_mass_nsa_telephone_surveillance.html\">The Dragnet\u2019s Day in Court | The case that could destroy\u2014or legitimize\u2014mass NSA telephone surveillance<\/a> by Sean Vitka:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Sept. 6, far away from the two high-profile challenges to the NSA\u2019s dragnet surveillance programs filed by the ACLU and EPIC, attorney Joshua Dratel filed a motion demanding a new trial for his client, Basaaly Moalin, and three other defendants. The motion argued that the defendants\u2019 constitutional and statutory rights were violated by the government\u2019s surveillance, committed under the NSA\u2019s mass telephone record collection. Furthermore, Dratel argued, the prosecution\u2019s secrecy violated rules of discovery.<\/p>\n<p>Dratel was reacting to FBI Deputy Director Sean Joyce\u2019s descriptions of warrantless surveillance of and exculpatory evidence regarding Moalin\u2014public statements made to Congress on July 31. That was five months after a trial in which the government and the court prohibited Dratel from obtaining exactly that evidence, and five months after his client and the three other defendants were convicted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9534\">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-9534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534","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=9534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}