{"id":9597,"date":"2013-10-13T12:33:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T12:33:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T12:33:29","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9597","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Effort underway to declassify document that is legal foundation for NSA phone program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/effort-underway-to-declassify-document-that-is-legal-foundation-for-nsa-phone-program\/2013\/10\/12\/3049a9fa-31cb-11e3-89ae-16e186e117d8_story.html\">Effort underway to declassify document that is legal foundation for NSA phone program<\/a> by Ellen Nakashima and Carol D. Leonnig: <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the recent stream of disclosures about National Security Agency surveillance programs, one document, sources say, has been conspicuously absent: the original &#8211; and still classified &#8211; judicial interpretation that held that the bulk collection of Americans&#8217; data was lawful. That document, written by Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, then chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), provided the legal foundation for the NSA amassing a database of all Americans&#8217; phone records, say current and former officials who have read it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9597\">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-9597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597","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=9597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}