DEA: ‘All Your Calls Are Belong To Us’
I hope this is a wake-up call for members of Congress to say now is the time—after 40 years—for this agency to get a close examination.
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In Secret AT&T Deal, U.S. Drug Agents Given Access to 26 Years of Americans’ Phone Records
Under a secretive DEA program called the Hemisphere Project, the agency has access to records of every phone call transmitted via AT&T’s infrastructure dating back to 1987.
Holder Pressed on DEA Use of NSA Intelligence
A group of Democratic senators and congressmen want Attorney General Eric Holder to answer questions about a Reuters report earlier this month revealing that the National Security Agency (NSA) supplied the DEA with intelligence information aimed not at fighting foreign terrorism, but at making drug cases in the US.
DEA Bans Armored Cars From Picking up Pot Shop Cash
Medical marijuana is legal in California, but the combination of valuable drugs and what is often a cash-only business can attract some rough characters.
How the DEA Used an Anonymous Letter to Target a Medical Marijuana Activist
CANNABIS CULTURE - For years the police told us "If you don't like the law, then you can always change it." Too bad they didn't tell us what they do to people who actually change the law.
How the DEA’s Special Operations Division Nearly Destroyed Our Family
CANNABIS CULTURE - The US government claims it's using secret NSA information to fight terrorism – but it's also going after medical marijuana activists.
DEA Unit Uses Spy Data to Launch Criminal Investigations, Then Hide Their Origins
Legal experts troubled by revelations of law enforcement using NSA surveillance data to initiate criminal investigations in a technique known as "parallel construction."
DEA to Pay $4.1 Million to Man Forgotten in Cell
San Diego student Daniel Chong did not even have to file suit.
Feds Raid WA Medical Pot Dispensaries — Could More Regulation Save the Coming Legal Market?
A strong, state-based regulatory system appears key to avoiding the crackdown.
DEA Raids Puget Sound Medical-Pot Shops Despite State Law
At least 14 Puget Sound-area medical-marijuana dispensaries were swept up in a long-expected law-enforcement raid that ranks as the largest since the state approved medical marijuana.
