DEA Scumbags are still hard at work, violating civil rights
Apr 3, 2019 5:11:16 GMT -5
Post by avordvet on Apr 3, 2019 5:11:16 GMT -5
And as with all government departments; no one is fired, no one is even reprimanded, all retire with nice fat pensions for life.
Report: DEA Snooped on Americans Who Bought Money Counters
By Cathy Burke, Sunday, 31 March 2019 03:33 PM
The Drug Enforcement Administration secretly collected bulk records of Americans' purchases of money-counting machines to look for possible drug traffickers — and hid the practice from judges and defendants, The New York Times reported.
The DEA in 2008 began to issue blanket administrative subpoenas to learn who was buying money counters, according to an inspector general report. The subpoenas involved no court oversight nor were they pegged to any particular probe.
www.newsmax.com/newsfront/drug-enforcement-dea-surveillance/2019/03/31/id/909505/
By Cathy Burke, Sunday, 31 March 2019 03:33 PM
The Drug Enforcement Administration secretly collected bulk records of Americans' purchases of money-counting machines to look for possible drug traffickers — and hid the practice from judges and defendants, The New York Times reported.
The DEA in 2008 began to issue blanket administrative subpoenas to learn who was buying money counters, according to an inspector general report. The subpoenas involved no court oversight nor were they pegged to any particular probe.
www.newsmax.com/newsfront/drug-enforcement-dea-surveillance/2019/03/31/id/909505/
DEA Never Checked If Its Massive Surveillance Operations Are Legal, Watchdog Says
By Jack Corrigan March 28, 2019
The Drug Enforcement Administration skirted numerous legal checks on a trio of bulk data collection programs dating back to the early 1990s, according to an internal watchdog.
In a heavily redacted, 144-page report published Thursday, the Justice Department Inspector General revealed the administration failed to fully assess the legal basis for three massive international surveillance operations that ran largely unchecked from 1992 to 2013. Two of the programs remain active in some form today.
Under one initiative, which investigators called “Program A,” the administration used “non-target specific” subpoenas to force multiple telecom providers to provide metadata on every phone call made from the U.S. to as many as 116 countries with “a nexus to drugs.” Investigators found some companies also provided the officials with data on all calls made between those foreign countries.
The administration also conducted two other bulk surveillance programs during that time without assessing their legality, investigators found. Under “Program B,” officials used similarly sweeping subpoenas to collect information on anyone who purchased specific products from participating vendors. Through “Program C,” DEA purchased telephone metadata for targets of ongoing investigations through a contractor for a separate government agency.
Program B ran from 2008 to 2013, and Program C began in 2007 and remains active today, according to the IG.
www.nextgov.com/analytics-data/2019/03/dea-never-checked-if-its-massive-surveillance-operations-are-legal-watchdog-says/155907/
By Jack Corrigan March 28, 2019
The Drug Enforcement Administration skirted numerous legal checks on a trio of bulk data collection programs dating back to the early 1990s, according to an internal watchdog.
In a heavily redacted, 144-page report published Thursday, the Justice Department Inspector General revealed the administration failed to fully assess the legal basis for three massive international surveillance operations that ran largely unchecked from 1992 to 2013. Two of the programs remain active in some form today.
Under one initiative, which investigators called “Program A,” the administration used “non-target specific” subpoenas to force multiple telecom providers to provide metadata on every phone call made from the U.S. to as many as 116 countries with “a nexus to drugs.” Investigators found some companies also provided the officials with data on all calls made between those foreign countries.
The administration also conducted two other bulk surveillance programs during that time without assessing their legality, investigators found. Under “Program B,” officials used similarly sweeping subpoenas to collect information on anyone who purchased specific products from participating vendors. Through “Program C,” DEA purchased telephone metadata for targets of ongoing investigations through a contractor for a separate government agency.
Program B ran from 2008 to 2013, and Program C began in 2007 and remains active today, according to the IG.
www.nextgov.com/analytics-data/2019/03/dea-never-checked-if-its-massive-surveillance-operations-are-legal-watchdog-says/155907/