Tag: warrantless surveillance
Posted on Wed Apr 08, 2015 at 11:00:51 AM EST
Tags: DEA, warrantless surveillance (all tags)
Via USA Today:
For more than two decades, the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed logs of virtually all telephone calls from the USA to as many as 116 countries linked to drug trafficking, current and former officials involved with the operation said. The targeted countries changed over time but included Canada, Mexico and most of Central and South America.
Federal investigators used the call records to track drug cartels' distribution networks in the USA, allowing agents to detect previously unknown trafficking rings and money handlers
The program began under Bush I and continued throught the terms of the next three Presidents. It was carried out by DEA's "intelligence arm" with little oversight. It was stopped by AG Eric Holder in 2013. [More..]
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Posted on Sun Jun 09, 2013 at 02:51:50 PM EST
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The Washington Post has a graphic timeline of electronic surveillance under Presidents Bush and Obama from 2001 through 2013.
But there are many more examples. In 2010, the FBI got the phone records of WAPO journalists. See, FBI Illegally Collected Thousands of Phone Records Through Fake Terror Emergencies. [More...]
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Posted on Tue Feb 26, 2013 at 01:31:25 PM EST
Tags: FISA, warrantless surveillance (all tags)
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision written by Justice Alito, today ruled civil rights groups and lawyers representing Guantanamo detainees lacked standing to challenge the 1998 FISA Amendment that allowed their overseas conversations and e-mails to be intercepted. The case is Clapper v. Amnesty International, the opinion is here.
Split 5-4 on ideological lines, with conservatives backing the government and the liberal wing in the minority, the country's highest court said none of the three categories, including human rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have legal standing to sue because they could not show they had suffered any injury.
The ACLU, which filed the lawsuit, says: [More...]
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