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FBI and DEA under review for use of NSA mass surveillance data 3
#22308194 - 09/29/15 01:04 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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http://www.dailydot.com/politics/nsa-dea-fbi-snowden-doj-oig/
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The Justice Department is investigating the FBI’s use of information taken directly from mass surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA)’s collection of telephone metadata.
The yield of that NSA spying program was described by a judge as a “staggering” amount of data when the agency's ability to collect it was struck down as illegal in court earlier this year. The program was resumed in June and will run until at least December.
Another ongoing Justice Department investigation is examining the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)'s use of “parallel construction.”
Parallel construction is a controversial investigative technique that takes information gained from sources like the NSA's mass surveillance, covers up or lies about the sources, and then utilizes them in criminal investigations inside the United States. The information was passed to other federal agencies like the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
The technique was described as “decades old, a bedrock concept” by a DEA official.
Critics at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) described the technique as “intelligence laundering” designed to cover up "deception and dishonesty" that ran contrary to the original intent of post-9/11 surveillance laws.
Both the FBI and DEA, which operate under the jurisdiction of the Justice Department, are under review by the department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). The details of the NSA’s mass metadata collection program were first publicly revealed in 2013 by contractor Edward Snowden. The DEA’s use of parallel construction was revealed by Reuters a few months later.
The OIG is charged with identifying and investigating fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement. Although OIG reports cannot on their own force change, detailed information is always shared with Congress and often the public which can lead to the investigated party agreeing to the suggested changes and conclusions from the OIG or other entities.
The NSA sent daily metadata reports to the FBI from at least 2006 to 2011, according to the director of national intelligence.
The ongoing review will examine how the FBI processed the NSA’s information, how much information was passed along, and the results of the initiated investigations.
The NSA’s mass collection of telephone metadata was thought to be authorized under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations argued for and renewed authorization until the program expired in Congress earlier this year.
The Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General is also investigating the FBI’s use of Patroit Act Section 215 from 2012 to 2014 that allowed it to obtain “any tangible thing” from any business or entity as part of investigations against international terrorism or spying.
A previous investigation revealed that every single Section 215 application submitted by the FBI to the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) was approved.
That amount data collected was a “staggering” amount of information, Judge Gerard E. Lynch wrote in his decision. “Such expansive development of government repositories of formerly private records would be an unprecedented contraction of the privacy expectations of all Americans.”
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Re: FBI and DEA under review for use of NSA mass surveillance data [Re: xpl0de] 1
#22308438 - 09/29/15 01:49 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Pirate bay shut down, silk road...
pretty sure all of those utilized extensive snooping
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Re: FBI and DEA under review for use of NSA mass surveillance data [Re: Konyap] 1
#22309966 - 09/29/15 05:58 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Subverting the 4th amendment right of every single american in the name of terrorism that slowly bleeds into the justice department of every government agency FTL...
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Re: FBI and DEA under review for use of NSA mass surveillance data [Re: xpl0de] 1
#22310228 - 09/29/15 06:56 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Geez. There might be hope for DPR (Ross Ulbricht) yet! If the DEA's evidence against him was obtained illegally, the government's case against him might be subject to appeal and fall apart!
I bet his lawyers will be following THAT story closely!
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Re: FBI and DEA under review for use of NSA mass surveillance data [Re: Nature Boy]
#22315398 - 09/30/15 05:47 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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They utilize lawyers on the prosecution side to doctor up 'paper legal' "probable cause" they never had. They use the very system we pay into against its own citizens. It is truly sickening. Above the law until proven otherwise. I hope all guilty parties have their lives ruined like they wish upon the very citizens they say they protect. Not surprised glad they finally admit to it. Hard to express the level of disgust here. Cops investigation on rapists have so much more bearing than drug crimes.
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Re: FBI and DEA under review for use of NSA mass surveillance data [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
#22317676 - 10/01/15 07:28 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Cognitive_Shift said: Subverting the 4th amendment right of every single american in the name of terrorism that slowly bleeds into the justice department of every government agency FTL...
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Dude on the $100 bill
"The Constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper!" -Previous Cretin-in-chief
About the mass telephone call surveillance, I remember hearing about it close to 20 years ago. It was a little nerve wracking having a call with a childhood friend and purposely saying words like: bomb, President, White House, etc. I guess I was trying to evoke these red flags with my idea of what key words to say that would send the cops and maybe later the Secret Service and FBI to my house.
Edited by AEL1911 (10/01/15 07:41 AM)
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Re: FBI and DEA under review for use of NSA mass surveillance data [Re: AEL1911]
#22319574 - 10/01/15 03:01 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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NICE
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