DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration)
[DEA has more
extensive domestic phone surveillance op
than NSA] "For at least six years, US
anti-drug agents have used subpoenas to
routinely gain access to an enormous AT&T
database. It’s an intrusion greater in scale
and longevity than the NSA’s collection of
phone calls, revealed by Edward Snowden’s
leaks.
As part of the secret Hemisphere Project the
government has been paying AT&T to place its
employees in drug-fighting units around the
country, the New York Times reports.
The US’s largest telecoms operator has been
supplying phone data to the Drug Enforcement
Administration since 1987.
The project covers every call that passes
through an AT&T switch, including those made
by clients of other operators, with some
four billion call records added to the
database on a daily basis..." Full text:
DEA has more extensive domestic phone
surveillance op than NSA
Am 8:5
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