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DEA Paid Amtrak Employee To Pilfer Passenger Lists
Via Ars Technica comes news that an Amtrak employee was paid nearly $900,000 over the last ten years to give the DEA passenger lists outside of normal channels. Strangely enough, the DEA already had access to such information through official channels. From the article: The employee, described as a "secretary to a train and engine crew" in a summary obtained by the AP, was selling the customer data without Amtrak's approval. Amtrak and other transportation companies collect information from their customers including credit card numbers, travel itineraries, emergency contact info, passport numbers, and dates of birth. When booking tickets online in recent years, Amtrak has also collected phone numbers and e-mail addresses. ... Amtrak has long worked closely with the DEA to track drug trafficking activity on its train lines. The Albuquerque Journal reported in 2001 that "a computer with access to Amtrak's ticketing information sits on a desk in the [DEA]'s local office," wrote the ACLU.
Everyday there is a new idiot on Slashdot, blinded by his sheer hatred for Bush, love of Obama and all things socialist who has no idea what the constitution is or what it stands for, and then makes this fact embarrasingly clear in public for all the world to see, and then point at him and laugh.
Actually had I the chance I would kick you. But alas I do not.
"The Constitution has nothing on the right to travel"
From wiki (but lower down from actual scholarly references indeed);
""The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States." As far back as the circuit court ruling in Corfield v. Coryell, 6 Fed. Cas. 546 (1823), the Supreme Court recognized freedom of movement as a fundamental Constitutional right. In Paul v. Virginia, 75 U.S. 168 (1869), the Court defined freedom of movement as "right of free ingress into other States, and egress from them."
The level of idiocy here continues to stun and amaze me every day.
No wonder you fucksticks voted for Obama and are willing to literally bend over and be probed by the state 'for your own goof'.
Lickspittle.