Report: DEA Has Been Secretly Snooping on More Americans’ Phone Cal...

Matt Welch|Sep. 2, 2013 9:20 am

The New York Times last night published an article that should put to rest the debate over whether we live in a free country. We don't:

For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that contains the records of decades of Americans' phone calls — parallel to but covering a far longer time than the National Security Agency’s hotly disputed collection of phone call logs.

The Hemisphere Project, a partnership between federal and local drug officials and AT&T that has not previously been reported, involves an extremely close association between the government and the telecommunications giant.

http://reason.com/blog/2013/09/02/report-dea-has-been-secretly-snoo...