Vast surveillance program that gathered records of innocent Americans’

[Penelope]

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr launched a vast surveillance program that gathered records of innocent Americans’ international phone calls without first conducting a review of whether it was legal, the department’s inspector general concluded Thursday.

It happened in 1992, the last time Barr served as attorney general.

The secret program, run by the Drug Enforcement Administration, ultimately gathered billions of records of nearly all phone calls from the United States to 116 countries, with little oversight from Congress or the courts, a USA TODAY investigation found. It provided a blueprint for far broader phone-data surveillance the government launched after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The Justice Department’s inspector general said both the DEA and the Justice Department “failed to conduct a comprehensive legal analysis” of its authority to gather those records.

The program was the government’s first known effort to gather records on Americans in bulk, sweeping up information related to millions of Americans regardless of whether they were suspected of a crime. Attorney General Eric Holder ordered the DEA to halt the collection in 2013, after leaks by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden sparked an uproar about the government’s data dragnets.

Justice under AG Barr began vast surveillance program without legal review – in 1992, inspector general finds

The Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr launched a vast telephone surveillance program in 1992 without a full legal review.

www.usatoday.com

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also he wanted mass incarceration.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

No surprise in the least.i been saying for AGES now clinton is as evil as bush,they have been long time pals with each other.Barr exposed how evil Clinton really was.this went on obviously with the knowledge of both bush I and Clinton back then,
The illegal survillance of the police state has been going on since at least since then and has expanded every decade thanks to this corrupt one party system of demopublicans and reprocrats we have disguised as two parties. Snow himself said once Obama got in he hoped things would change under his administration but Obama just expanded what bush got started.

 

[Muhammed]

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr launched a vast surveillance program that gathered records of innocent Americans’ international phone calls without first conducting a review of whether it was legal, the department’s inspector general concluded Thursday.

It happened in 1992, the last time Barr served as attorney general.

The secret program, run by the Drug Enforcement Administration, ultimately gathered billions of records of nearly all phone calls from the United States to 116 countries, with little oversight from Congress or the courts, a USA TODAY investigation found. It provided a blueprint for far broader phone-data surveillance the government launched after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The Justice Department’s inspector general said both the DEA and the Justice Department “failed to conduct a comprehensive legal analysis” of its authority to gather those records.

The program was the government’s first known effort to gather records on Americans in bulk, sweeping up information related to millions of Americans regardless of whether they were suspected of a crime. Attorney General Eric Holder ordered the DEA to halt the collection in 2013, after leaks by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden sparked an uproar about the government’s data dragnets.

Justice under AG Barr began vast surveillance program without legal review – in 1992, inspector general finds

The Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr launched a vast telephone surveillance program in 1992 without a full legal review.

www.usatoday.com

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also he wanted mass incarceration.

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Fake news.

reason: The statement "The program was the government’s first known effort to gather records on Americans in bulk, sweeping up information related to millions of Americans regardless of whether they were suspected of a crime." Is a blatant fucking lie.

Fact: Project SHAMROCK did exactly that, and it preceded that DEA program by nearly half a fucking century. Hell, it preceded the DEA by decades.

Project SHAMROCK, the sister project for Project MINARET, was an espionage exercise started in August 1945,[1] which involved the accumulation of all telegraphic data entering into or exiting from the United States.

Project SHAMROCK - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

It is well known that USA Today is a fake news organization,so why do you post it here, dumbass?

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr launched a vast surveillance program that gathered records of innocent Americans’ international phone calls without first conducting a review of whether it was legal, the department’s inspector general concluded Thursday.

It happened in 1992, the last time Barr served as attorney general.

The secret program, run by the Drug Enforcement Administration, ultimately gathered billions of records of nearly all phone calls from the United States to 116 countries, with little oversight from Congress or the courts, a USA TODAY investigation found. It provided a blueprint for far broader phone-data surveillance the government launched after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The Justice Department’s inspector general said both the DEA and the Justice Department “failed to conduct a comprehensive legal analysis” of its authority to gather those records.

The program was the government’s first known effort to gather records on Americans in bulk, sweeping up information related to millions of Americans regardless of whether they were suspected of a crime. Attorney General Eric Holder ordered the DEA to halt the collection in 2013, after leaks by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden sparked an uproar about the government’s data dragnets.

Justice under AG Barr began vast surveillance program without legal review – in 1992, inspector general finds

The Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr launched a vast telephone surveillance program in 1992 without a full legal review.

www.usatoday.com

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also he wanted mass incarceration.

Oh my God! Really...is this true? Insanity! Imagine if we had a huge terrorist attack...my God they may use that to construct an entire surveillance apparatus to spy on our every communication...it might start with legislation...they would call it something like...hmmmm...The Patriot Act...or something like that. Maybe they would construct large collection centers that would record your every communication...put it in the middle of nowhere...maybe like Utah...yeah...man these 90's sure are a crazy time though!