{"id":499851,"date":"2010-04-01T18:07:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T22:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=34226"},"modified":"2010-04-01T18:07:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T22:07:59","slug":"federal-judge-rules-against-n-s-a-wiretaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/499851","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Rules Against N.S.A. Wiretaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Hawes<\/p>\n<p>From <em>The New York Times<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/n\/national_security_agency\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" >National Security Agency<\/a>&#8216;s program of surveillance without warrants was illegal, rejecting the Obama administration&#8217;s effort to keep shrouded in secrecy one of the most disputed counterterrorism policies of former President <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/b\/george_w_bush\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" >George W. Bush<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling by Judge Walker, the chief judge of the Federal District Court in San Francisco, rejected the Justice Department&#8217;s claim &#8211; first asserted by the Bush administration and continued under <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/o\/barack_obama\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" >President Obama<\/a> &#8211; that the charity&#8217;s lawsuit should be dismissed without a ruling on the merits because allowing it to go forward could reveal state secrets&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/01\/us\/01nsa.html\" >Read the rest.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Hawes From The New York Times: WASHINGTON &#8211; A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the National Security Agency&#8216;s program of surveillance without warrants was illegal, rejecting the Obama administration&#8217;s effort to keep shrouded in secrecy one of the most disputed counterterrorism policies of former President George W. Bush&#8230;. The ruling by Judge Walker, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499851","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\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}