Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2015 0:02:37 GMT -6
Yikes! Now its the DEA who used letters instead of warrants and hoovered data like a vacuum of the same name, instead of being selective as we might hope they'd be?
Well, isn't that dandy. It also mentions this started back in the 90's and ran into 2013.
OH! They do, however, promise and pinky swear not to do it again.
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...Or perhaps they just mean they haven't done it up to this moment, but quietly reserve the right to resume at any time they wish...(Like when all the noise over phone records settles, as they so hope it will?)
Big brother's big ears need big plugs shoved down REAL deep until they learn how to be a little more polite about listening to guilty type people, and not just the whole friggen population engaged in certain entire classes of communication.
Who will be next to admit they just stomped right on over the 4th amendment? The Postal Service? Perhaps the Peace Corps have kept a secret database on everyone to look for recruits? It really does seem everyone else maintained one, so why not them too?
A Drug Enforcement Administration official said in the three-page filing that the agency has long used administrative subpoenas—not federal court orders—to collect the metadata of U.S. calls to and from foreign countries “that were determined to have a demonstrated nexus to international drug trafficking and related criminal activities.’’
Well, isn't that dandy. It also mentions this started back in the 90's and ran into 2013.
OH! They do, however, promise and pinky swear not to do it again.
A Justice Department official said the database was deleted and hasn’t been searched since 2013, and said the DEA is no longer collecting bulk telephone records from U.S. phone companies.
...Or perhaps they just mean they haven't done it up to this moment, but quietly reserve the right to resume at any time they wish...(Like when all the noise over phone records settles, as they so hope it will?)
Big brother's big ears need big plugs shoved down REAL deep until they learn how to be a little more polite about listening to guilty type people, and not just the whole friggen population engaged in certain entire classes of communication.
Who will be next to admit they just stomped right on over the 4th amendment? The Postal Service? Perhaps the Peace Corps have kept a secret database on everyone to look for recruits? It really does seem everyone else maintained one, so why not them too?