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DEA secretly tracked AmericansÂ’ calls for over a decade, court document reveals
2015-01-18
[Wash Times] A new document reveals that the U.S. Department of Justice secretly kept track of AmericansÂ’ 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.
Probably just metadata, please have someone ring up Jim Clapper to confirm.
DIA is going to be upset -- this is their job!
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  Just remember, it was Bush the elder that got mad over referring to feds as 'jack booted thugs'.
Everybody knows they actually wear black combat boots, no polish required.
Posted by: ed in texas   2015-01-18 10:28  

#3  Wake me when you find an USG (or any other G) agency which doesn't.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-01-18 09:50  

#2  for more than a decade
So Bush started it!
Posted by: Skidmark   2015-01-18 08:41  

#1  DIA is going to be upset -- this is their job!

Indeed they will. BBQ Wednesday lunch may be extended to 2 hours indefinitely in protest.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-01-18 03:02  

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