Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Docs: Responding To Katrina, FBI Made Cell Phone Surveillance Its Priority

Posted by timothy on from the never-waste-a-crisis dept.

v3rgEz writes: There's a lot of lessons that the federal government should have learned in the aftermath of Katrina. Increased domestic surveillance, however, appears to be the one the FBI took to heart, using the natural disaster as a justification for ramping up its use of Stingray cell phone tracking throughout Louisiana after the storm, according to documents released under FOIA to MuckRock.

1 of 84 comments (clear)

  1. Rampant Crime by JimSadler · · Score: -1, Troll

    Did the FBI notice the rampant lack of performance as the Bush administration tried to kill off the people on New Orleans by deliberate neglect? If ever there was a crime against humanity the mass murder of citizens by the neglect of the Bush administration is a superb example.