Huge story: The DEA harvested billions of US phone records for nearly a decade before 9/11, becoming NSA's blueprint.http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/04/07/dea-bulk-telephone-surveillance-operation/70808616/ …
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Replying to @trevortimm
Don't worry! The US tracks billions of US calls only to nab terrorists. Well…also drug deals. And "in a wide range of other investigations."
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DEA used its US spy program "in ways that NSA is now prohibited from doing," searched it "more often in a day than the NSA does in a year."
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So DOJ gave the phone companies only a subpoena—i.e. no court sign off—for ALL int'l calls, and no one challenged it.http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/04/07/dea-bulk-telephone-surveillance-operation/70808616/ …
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@trevortimm Well, Sprint sort of kind of did, as they sort of kind of did the dragnet in 2009. Also, DOJ is suing Sprint for overcharging.1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
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@emptywheel I mean, if you include "hesitating slightly before receiving one letter and handing it all over" challenging, then I guess1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes
@trevortimm Baby toe stretches in anticipation of one day maybe possibly maybe taking a step.
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