{"id":38262,"date":"2013-07-16T06:40:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T12:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/16\/the-surveillance-shell-game.html"},"modified":"2013-07-16T09:28:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T15:28:33","slug":"the-surveillance-shell-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/16\/the-surveillance-shell-game.html","title":{"rendered":"The Surveillance Shell Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Justice Department short answer: \u00a0&quot;It&#39;s okay to authorize these programs because their constitutionality can be challenged in court if evidence is used from them &#8230; if we&#39;ll admit to evidence actually being from such programs and don&#39;t just simply say that&#39;s a secret.&quot; \u00a0Joseph K would be impressed.<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/16\/us\/double-secret-surveillance.html?hp&#038;_r=1&#038;'>A Secret Surveillance Program Proves Challengeable in Theory Only &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><br \/>\n                                                The Obama administration says criminal defendants may have standing to challenge federal surveillance programs, but try telling that to prosecutors.\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/ZegANsJgHqL' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Department short answer: \u00a0&quot;It&#39;s okay to authorize these programs because their constitutionality can be challenged in court if evidence is used from them &#8230; if we&#39;ll admit to evidence actually being from such programs and don&#39;t just simply say that&#39;s a secret.&quot; \u00a0Joseph K would be impressed. Embedded Link A Secret Surveillance Program Proves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/16\/the-surveillance-shell-game.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Surveillance Shell Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51349,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/03\/as-usual-the-onion-hits-disturbingly-close-to-home-nsa-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":38262,"position":0},"title":"As usual, &quot;The Onion&quot; hits disturbingly close to home (NSA Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-Jun-15 6:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's times like these that I want to Fast-Forward 50 years hence and see what's happened (and what was actually happening). 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