Move over NSA, you got nothin' on the DEA

09/03/13

This is how the New York Times describes a telephone surveillance program carried out by federal drug enforcement agencies:

For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics 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.

Sounds ominous, but is it?

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