Posted on 09/02/2013 8:16:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This is how the New York Times describes a telephone surveillance program carried out by federal drug enforcement agencies:
For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that contains the records of decades of Americans' phone calls -- parallel to but covering a far longer time than the National Security Agency's hotly disputed collection of phone call logs.
Sounds ominous, but is it?
The Hemisphere Project, a partnership between federal and local drug officials and AT&T that has not previously been reported, involves an extremely close association between the government and the telecommunications giant.
The government pays AT&T to place its employees in drug-fighting units around the country. Those employees sit alongside Drug Enforcement Administration agents and local detectives and supply them with the phone data from as far back as 1987.
Should it concern us that AT&T cooperates so closely with law enforcement?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I believe the correct English delineation is, “You ain’t got nothin’ on the NSA.” Just sayin’...
So...all this time that I have been called “Paranoid”, I really WASN’T?
Apparently not.
The other guy is out to get you!
yep!
If they are using subpenas, What is the problem?
Should all law enforcement turn a blind eye?
this is meta data and the actual call
if you made a call in the US since 1987... it was recorded and stored somewhere.
I’m sure it’s all being pushed through voice recog to produce text files which will be indexed for cross referencing and analysis
And almost no more pay phones for calls not traceable to your personal phone.
I’m sure that, under this particular administration, that process is as uncorrupted as IRS audits, FBI investigations and EPA regulatory edicts.
I think DEA and DHS are way to big, and they are all programs started by conservatives, but so long as there is judicial oversight and process, I will not complain about justice.
If DEA is wiretapping people for nefarious and illegal means while planting evidence on people, that is a horse of another color.
If the judicial oversight is by democrat appointed judges does that make you feel better?
How do we know the subpeonas match the information that’s actually extracted?
It’s got an NSA feel about it actually.
If someone were to subpeona the entire database would that make it legal but dirty?
You believe the leaked hype about NSA.
I do not.
What bothers me is how Obama has everyone distrusting select parts of government while none of it sticks to him.
I smell a crafted disinformation campaign.
A disinformation campaign that started with Hillary’s FBI files?
Huge databases that incorporate lots of information are like giant sugar bowls. It’s impossible to keep the ants out.
We’re only seeing the tip of the ant iceberg.
It all smells like Obama using all the surveillance he likes while discrediting the surveillance community.
Watch for his move to dismantle it just prior to his leaving office.
Wouldn’t want those dirty republicans to have the same tools would we?
I can see that point of view easily.
I’m not sure the Republicans have the testicles to use it in the same way.
I’m not entirely sure they’re not on the same side when it comes right down to it.
There is no doubt that Obama punked Hillary bad.
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