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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. Re:Criminals aren't concerned by The+Master+Control+P · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Would you rather your rights to privacy and liberty mostly-disappear the moment anyone suspects drugs might be involved, as they do presently? My proposal might not be optimal, but it's one hell of a lot better than what we're trying to do now.

    On the other hand, this whole thing is arguably null: Psuedoephedrine's optical isomer is just as effective at relieving congestion, can't be turned into meth, and has fewer side-effects to boot. You have three guesses which bunch of dickbags are sitting on the patent.

  2. CIA Torture Jet wrecks with 4 Tons of COCAINE by PurPaBOO · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m39190&hd=&size=1&l=e

    wake up, 'merkins.

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