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The DEA Is Literally Using Surveillance to Get Better at Stealing from Travelers * 1
    #23546535 - 08/16/16 10:39 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

http://theantimedia.org/dea-surveillance-travelers/

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When Louis Weiss, the former supervisor of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), was interviewed by USA Today’s Brad Heath, the former DEA employee had no problem discussing the government agencies’ dependence on stolen property in order to pad their budgets and increase discretionary spending.
At the DEA, Weiss told USA Today, they “count on [civil asset forfeiture] as part of the budget.”
“Basically,” the former DEA supervisor said, “you’ve got to feed the monster.”

Several law enforcement agencies, including the DEA, often use civil asset forfeiture to seize cash from Americans who aren’t guilty of committing a crime. But recently, the DEA was caught taking a further step to meet its forfeiture ambitions: data mining traveler information.
The process is fairly simple. In order to spot travelers with large sums of cash in hand, agents profile “passengers on Amtrak trains and nearly every major U.S. airline, drawing on reports from a network of travel-industry informants that extends from ticket counters to back offices.”

In many cases, USA Today added, agents single “out passengers for questioning or searches for reasons as seemingly benign as traveling one-way to California or having paid for a ticket in cash.”
To Tech Dirt, this new revelation adds “another layer of surveillance to the traveling experience.” Ever since the creation of the TSA, American travelers have been subject to unconstitutional searches over terrorism concerns. But now, they’re also being scouted for cash.
If USA Today’s investigation is correct, “the DEA’s surveillance apparatus has resulted in at least $209 million seized from over 5,000 passengers over the last decade,” Tech Dirt reported.

But the DEA’s purpose is not to take cash from innocent Americans. Instead, the DEA was created to focus on taking drug-related criminals off the street.
While one may argue against the DEA’s mission on several grounds, it’s still important to highlight the agency’s apparent lack of focus considering its agents aren’t doing what its mission statement claims. Instead of dedicating its resources to going after drug lords, agents steal travelers’ money and let the alleged suspects go.
That was the case with Christelle Tillerson, a traveler who had $25,000 seized by the DEA while waiting to board a plane to Chicago from Detroit.

“The Justice Department said in a court filing that agents became interested in Tillerson after they ‘received information’ that she was headed to Los Angeles on a one-way ticket,” USA Today reported. But Tillerson explained “her boyfriend had withdrawn the money from his U.S. Postal Service retirement account so that she could buy a truck.” To DEA agents, that answer wasn’t good enough.
Because Tillerson was an ex-convict with an arrest under her belt for “driving a load of marijuana into the United States from Mexico,” the DEA seized the cash. They let her go after the ordeal.
Once Tillerson was able to prove her side of the story, “the Justice Department agreed to return the money, minus $4,000.” The DEA had concluded its agents deserved to keep a “small percentage” of the cash.

Tech Dirt reports that airlines refuse to work with the DEA to sniff out cash-strapped travelers. Unfortunately, this resistance does nothing to deter cash-hungry agents.
Going around the airlines, DEA agents often find “airline employees willing to peruse itineraries — or pass them on to the DEA — for a cut of the cash.” In order to have a database at its disposal, the DEA created a network of informants “that extends from ticket counters to back offices,” effectively creating “a cash-focused surveillance network.” Tech Dirt adds that, among government agents, “[c]ash is king. Everything else about the drug war — indictments, convictions, etc. — is just a sideline.”




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Re: The DEA Is Literally Using Surveillance to Get Better at Stealing from Travelers [Re: tdubz]
    #23546551 - 08/16/16 10:48 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

if you have cash the law enforcement steals it but if you don't the bank steals  it


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Re: The DEA Is Literally Using Surveillance to Get Better at Stealing from Travelers [Re: Konyap]
    #23546798 - 08/16/16 12:47 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

"The DEA had concluded its agents deserved to keep a “small percentage” of the cash."

These fucking pieces of pig shits, hope they get everything ripped away from them and then some.
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Re: The DEA Is Literally Using Surveillance to Get Better at Stealing from Travelers [Re: mushiefeet]
    #23546858 - 08/16/16 01:05 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Small fee for the trouble of sorting out a bad investigation.


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Re: The DEA Is Literally Using Surveillance to Get Better at Stealing from Travelers [Re: mushiefeet]
    #23546859 - 08/16/16 01:06 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

This is small time shit compared to what the US government will be doing in the future( especially if we get a progressive Hillary for president)


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Re: The DEA Is Literally Using Surveillance to Get Better at Stealing from Travelers [Re: Ruyguy]
    #23546866 - 08/16/16 01:08 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

How is this small time? This is what is happening an has always been happening and will always be in the future


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Re: The DEA Is Literally Using Surveillance to Get Better at Stealing from Travelers [Re: tdubz]
    #23546933 - 08/16/16 01:35 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Last year civil asset forfeiture took more money and belongings from Americans than home burglary


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Re: The DEA Is Literally Using Surveillance to Get Better at Stealing from Travelers [Re: tdubz] * 1
    #23547005 - 08/16/16 02:06 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)




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Re: The DEA Is Literally Using Surveillance to Get Better at Stealing from Travelers [Re: psillyboy]
    #23547014 - 08/16/16 02:09 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

DEA says:


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Re: The DEA Is Literally Using Surveillance to Get Better at Stealing from Travelers [Re: psillyboy]
    #23547153 - 08/16/16 03:01 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Shouldn't we have some kind of system in place so the general public can bring scumbags like this to justice?

We should be able to deny them funding or put them on trial for all the crimes they get away with...


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Re: The DEA Is Literally Using Surveillance to Get Better at Stealing from Travelers [Re: musiclover420]
    #23547270 - 08/16/16 03:48 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC; that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter: So help you God? Sound familiar? Also the second Amendment! Things that the leaders of this country have no respect for and are trying to take these rights away from us! The 10th Amendment is that system that should be in place to keep our government in line, wonder why they want our guns?


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Re: The DEA Is Literally Using Surveillance to Get Better at Stealing from Travelers [Re: Ruyguy]
    #23551166 - 08/17/16 08:20 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Cops r huge criminals,no wonder most ppl hate them,u could probably spend a month straight watching cops slam ppl into walls ,dropping them handcuffed onto pavement,just plain lighting ppl up with nothing in their hands,evil times..


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Re: The DEA Is Literally Using Surveillance to Get Better at Stealing from Travelers [Re: tdubz]
    #23552273 - 08/18/16 05:14 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense...


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