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IPFS News Link • Drug War

It Was Never About Terrorism

• Jonathan Turley
there is a lucrative and successful use of the NSA’s collection of all communications – the Drug War.

A secretive unit of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Special Operations Division (SOD) has been working with the NSA and its massive database to detect illegal drug activity and then route that information to local authorities. Federal agents are trained to cover up the origins of the information. Harvard Law School professor Nancy Gertner noted that: “It is one thing to create special rules for national security. Ordinary crime is entirely different.”....

 

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