Exclusive: U.S. Directs Agents To Cover Up Program Used To Investigate Americans -- Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.
Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin - not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges.
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More News On The DEA's Surveillance Program
The NSA is giving your phone records to the DEA. And the DEA is covering it up. -- Washington Post
Report: DEA unit hid use of intelligence database in criminal investigations -- The Hill
DEA reportedly covering up its use of NSA surveillance data to prosecute Americans -- The Verge
The DEA Is Spying on Us and Showing Other Agencies How to Cover It Up -- The Gawker
Secret DEA Surveillance Program Is Designed to Cover Itself Up -- The Atlantic
How DEA program differs from recent NSA revelations -- Chicago Tribune/Reuters
More Surveillance Abuse Exposed! Special DEA Unit Is Spying On Americans And Covering It Up -- Rick Ungar, Forbes
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