{"id":19747,"date":"2013-12-16T19:03:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T00:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19747"},"modified":"2013-12-16T19:03:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T00:03:21","slug":"judge-casts-legal-doubt-on-nsa-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19747\/judge-casts-legal-doubt-on-nsa-spying\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Casts Legal Doubt on NSA Spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction against the National Security Agency (NSA) today, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/12\/national-security-agency-phones-judge-101203.html?ml=po_r\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 68-page ruling sets up the possibility that some or all of the NSA\u2019s warrantless surveillance practices could be banned as violations of the Fourth Amendment\u2019s protections against unlawful searches and seizures.<\/p>\n<p>Due to U.S. District Judge Richard Leon\u2019s tone, it sounds like he\u2019s leaning toward striking the program down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot imagine a more \u2018indiscriminate\u2019 and \u2018arbitrary invasion\u2019 than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying it and analyzing it without judicial approval,\u201d Leon wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Since Leon seems likely to convert his preliminary order into a permanent injunction, expect to see this case \u2013 and perhaps others \u2013 arrive on the Supreme Court\u2019s docket soon. Along the way there will be no shortage of arguments about arcane legal precedents and policy disputes over national security.<\/p>\n<p>All of these are important considerations, but \u2013 in my view \u2013 the most appropriate place for their deliberation is Congress, not the courts. Maybe what NSA is doing can be justified under the Constitution as a legitimate national security measure. Maybe not. Either way, ultimately it should be decided by the branch most responsive \u2013 and responsible \u2013 to the People.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction against the National Security Agency (NSA) today, reports Politico. The 68-page ruling sets up the possibility that some or all of the NSA\u2019s warrantless surveillance practices could be banned as violations of the Fourth Amendment\u2019s protections against unlawful searches and seizures. Due to U.S. District Judge Richard Leon\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,800,801,826,2562,92],"class_list":["post-19747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-nsa","tag-privacy","tag-security","tag-spy","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19747"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19755,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19747\/revisions\/19755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}