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DEA wants Black English linguists to decipher bugged calls
AUGUST 23--The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records.
A maximum of nine Ebonics experts will work with the Drug Enforcement Administrations Atlanta field division, where the linguists, after obtaining a DEA Sensitive security clearance, will help investigators decipher the results of telephonic monitoring of court ordered nonconsensual intercepts, consensual listening devices, and other media
Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts | The Smoking Gun
AUGUST 23--The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records.
A maximum of nine Ebonics experts will work with the Drug Enforcement Administrations Atlanta field division, where the linguists, after obtaining a DEA Sensitive security clearance, will help investigators decipher the results of telephonic monitoring of court ordered nonconsensual intercepts, consensual listening devices, and other media
Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts | The Smoking Gun