With a Single Wiretap Order, US Authorities Listened In on 3.3 Million Phone Calls (zdnet.com)

US authorities intercepted and recorded millions of phone calls last year under a single wiretap order, authorized as part of a narcotics investigation, ZDNet's Zack Whittaker reports. From the article: The wiretap order authorized an unknown government agency to carry out real-time intercepts of 3.29 million cell phone conversations over a two-month period at some point during 2016, after the order was applied for in late 2015. The order was signed to help authorities track 26 individuals suspected of involvement with illegal drug and narcotic-related activities in Pennsylvania. The wiretap cost the authorities $335,000 to conduct and led to a dozen arrests. But the authorities noted that the surveillance effort led to no incriminating intercepts, and none of the handful of those arrested have been brought to trial or convicted.

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And we're supposed to believe...

[Bartles]

...the Obama Administration wasn't targeting Trump and associates? Excuse me if I don't believe you.

Re:Wrong Administration

[Mashiki]

Yeah he's such an idiot that the moment after he was elected that businesses basically opened the doors to hire people. The unemployment U3 and more importantly the U6(which has dropped nearly 2% since mid-november) are lower then when Obama was in office in the middle of his 'recovery' and he managed to reduce government centralization leaving states to make their own decisions. Oh, and wages are increasing for the first time in 6 years in quite a few places in the US, that's after they decreased repeated or remained stagnant.

Keep going with the "unemployed, ignorant and uneducated people" bit. At the rate the democrats are going they won't be a party by 2020, especially after they elected Mr. Moreofthesame and threw the "why the fuck did we lose" reviews out the window. Along with the "muh russia" narrative.