The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was revealed to have conducted secret surveillance of Americans’ phone calls overseas, in an operation that was totally separate from the already publicized NSA program.
The Justice Department revealed the secret database in a criminal case this week, saying the DEA had been collecting information about Americans who were making calls to “certain countries” that they’d linked to drug trafficking.
The scope of the program remains uncertain, as only its base existence was revealed in the case, and the fact that Iran was one of the countries targeted in the program.
The program was active for years, though the Justice Department claims they ended the program in September of 2013. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D – VT) is pressing for additional information on the scheme.
That certain country must be the United States, the country most associated with drug trafficking.
How do you know that?
Jun 7, 2013 William Benny – The Government is Profiling You (The NSA is Spying on You)
NSA stores data to target any citizen at any time – Greenwald October 29, 2013
http://rt.com/news/greenwald-interview-nsa-data-9…