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More Details Emerge On Domestic Spying Programs

Posted by kdawson on from the government-and-business-a-sittin'-in-a-tree dept.

The feed brings us this NYTimes story giving new details on the telecom carriers' cooperation with secret NSA (and other) domestic spying programs. One revelation is that the Drug Enforcement Agency has been running a program since the 1990s to collect the phone records of calls from US citizens to Latin America in order to catch narcotics traffickers. Another revelation is what exactly the NSA asked for in 2001 that Qwest balked at supplying. According to the article, it was access to the company's most localized communications switches, which primarily carry domestic calls.

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  1. yeah by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    One revelation is that the Drug Enforcement Agency has been running a program since the 1990s to collect the phone records of calls from US citizens to Latin America in order to catch narcotics traffickers.

    ...thereby winning the war on drugs once and for all. ONCE AND FOR ALL!

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  2. Criminals aren't home users by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course they balked at being asked for access to the home records,

    Criminal gangs, cartels and organisations are not individual customers and must have a business account with the phone company.

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