{"id":257466,"date":"2010-01-31T15:06:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T20:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21116"},"modified":"2010-01-31T15:06:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T20:06:22","slug":"illegal-warrantless-eavesdropping-still-unaddressed-by-courts-and-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/257466","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Warrantless Eavesdropping Still Unaddressed by Courts and Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Kravets writes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2010\/01\/legality-of-warrantless-eavesdropping\">Wired&#8217;s Threat Level<\/a>:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/NSATelecomSpying.jpg\" alt=\"NSATelecomSpying\" title=\"NSATelecomSpying\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21117\" height=\"231\" width=\"239\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Heads spun four years ago this weekend, when AT&#38;T was accused of funneling every one of its customers\u2019 electronic communications to the National Security Agency \u2014 without warrants. A Jan. 31, 2006, lawsuit alleged major violations of the Fourth Amendment right to be free from warrantless searches and seizures. Such a sweeping breach seemed far-fetched.<\/p>\n<p>Yet months after the lawsuit was lodged, the Electronic Frontier Foundation produced internal AT&#38;T documents allegedly outlining secret rooms in AT&#38;T offices connected to the NSA, which was siphoning all internet traffic, from e-mails to Voice Over Internet Protocol phone conversations.<\/p>\n<p>But four years and a mountain of court briefs and rulings later, the legal system has never addressed the merits of the allegations \u2014 and likely never will. Even Congress&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Kravets writes on Wired&#8217;s Threat Level: Heads spun four years ago this weekend, when AT&#38;T was accused of funneling every one of its customers\u2019 electronic communications to the National Security Agency \u2014 without warrants. A Jan. 31, 2006, lawsuit alleged major violations of the Fourth Amendment right to be free from warrantless searches and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}