AT&T Maintains Call Database For the DEA Going Back To 1987

Jah-Wren Ryel writes "Forget the NSA — the DEA has been working hand-in-hand with AT&T on a database of records of every call that passes through AT&T's phone switches going back as far as 1987. The government pays AT&T for contractors who sit side-by-side with DEA agents and do phone records searches for them. From the article: 'For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counter narcotics 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.'"

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Re:remorse?

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks for nothing.

Where I previously lived, the greenies managed to get a large city park closed. First the campers were thrown out (reports about illegal traps and poaching, which never was anything more than stuff said in the city council chambers.) Then the mountain bikers were thrown out because they skid on trails, causing erosion. Finally, the park was closed to the public because the greenies pushed for it.

Guess what. Six months later, said former park got leased to a company and is now a golf course. I'm sure the runoff from the constant fertilizer is quite "green".

Thank you greenies for one less place to go and more fecal chloroform in downstream streams/rivers making them unswimmable/undrinkable.

Re:remorse?

[ganjadude]

This right here is the perfect example of when groups push for goals without looking at the big picture. So not only did they take away camping, and hiking from the people who live there, but to add insult to injury, it was sold, and a golf course put in (private I assume) so the land is now not available for ANYONE, any animals that called the place home are now gone and theres an ugly private golf course where a once beautiful park was.

Environmentalists who push like this really piss me off. Meanwhile hes sitting at home patting himself on the back for what a good job he did saving the planet from the evil humans....