paulitician
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Time to end the 'War on Drugs.' People like to get high and drunk. And that in itself, is not a criminal act. I'd rather allow the People to get high and drunk, than allow the Government to continue committing crimes against the People like this. So the People wanna get high. That's the way it is, and always will be. Time to move on.
A new document reveals that the U.S. Department of Justice secretly kept track of Americans’ calls to foreign countries for more than a decade to track drug trafficking and other criminal activities.
The new database of stored calls was described in a filing Thursday in the case of a man accused of conspiring to unlawfully export goods to Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
A Drug Enforcement Administration official said in the filing that the agency, which operates under the Justice Department, has long used administrative subpoenas — not federal court orders — to collect the metadata of U.S. calls to foreign countries “that were determined to have a demonstrated nexus to international drug trafficking and related criminal activities,” the Journal reported.
Although the court document only refers to outgoing calls, sources familiar with the program say it also collected data on incoming calls...
Read more: DEA secretly tracked Americans calls for over a decade new court document reveals - Washington Times
http://www.drudgereport.com/
A new document reveals that the U.S. Department of Justice secretly kept track of Americans’ calls to foreign countries for more than a decade to track drug trafficking and other criminal activities.
The new database of stored calls was described in a filing Thursday in the case of a man accused of conspiring to unlawfully export goods to Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
A Drug Enforcement Administration official said in the filing that the agency, which operates under the Justice Department, has long used administrative subpoenas — not federal court orders — to collect the metadata of U.S. calls to foreign countries “that were determined to have a demonstrated nexus to international drug trafficking and related criminal activities,” the Journal reported.
Although the court document only refers to outgoing calls, sources familiar with the program say it also collected data on incoming calls...
Read more: DEA secretly tracked Americans calls for over a decade new court document reveals - Washington Times
http://www.drudgereport.com/