{"id":6512,"date":"2009-09-24T16:39:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T16:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/09\/24\/al-franken-reads-riot-act-to-d\/"},"modified":"2009-09-24T16:39:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T16:39:23","slug":"al-franken-reads-riot-act-to-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/24\/al-franken-reads-riot-act-to-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Franken Reads Riot Act to DOJ Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not the Riot Act, but the Fourth Amendment.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just in case he wasn&#8217;t familiar with it, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) decided to read the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution to David Kris, assistant attorney general of the Justice Department&#8217;s National Security Division, who was testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee today to urge reauthorization of expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/60611\/al-franken-reads-the-4th-amendment-to-justice-department-official\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The issue is over whether or not the 4th Amendment requirement that a warrant be issued only if it describes the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized obviates the Patriot Act&#8217;s &#8220;roving wiretaps.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not the Riot Act, but the Fourth Amendment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[208],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1H2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}