{"id":1291,"date":"2006-08-17T12:56:41","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T16:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/08\/17\/nsa-eavesdropping-ruled-unconstitutional\/"},"modified":"2006-08-18T11:14:32","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T15:14:32","slug":"nsa-eavesdropping-ruled-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/08\/nsa-eavesdropping-ruled-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA Eavesdropping Ruled Unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/08\/17\/domesticspying.lawsuit.ap\/index.html\">NSA eavesdropping program ruled unconstitutional<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Judge orders immediate halt to program<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>YES! Finally!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> A federal judge ruled Thursday that the government&#8217;s warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to it.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit became the first judge to strike down the National Security Agency&#8217;s program, which she says violates the rights to free speech and privacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It was never the intent of the Framers to give the President such unfettered control, particularly where his actions blatantly disregard the parameters clearly enumerated in the Bill of Rights.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>We must first note that the Office of the Chief Executive has itself been created, with its powers, by the Constitution. There are no hereditary Kings in America and no power not created by the Constitution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSA eavesdropping program ruled unconstitutional Judge orders immediate halt to program YES! Finally! A federal judge ruled Thursday that the government&#8217;s warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to it. U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit became the first judge to strike down the National Security Agency&#8217;s program, which she says violates the rights to free speech and privacy. &#8220;It was never the intent of the Framers to give the President such unfettered control, particularly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/08\/nsa-eavesdropping-ruled-unconstitutional\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10,3],"tags":[2743,444,2744,1168,1437,1048],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-nation","category-human-rights","category-politics","tag-anna-diggs-taylor","tag-constitution","tag-eavesdropping","tag-free-speech","tag-nsa","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}