Same Surveillance State, Different War — The Atlantic - FBI News Review
FBI News Review Continuously Updated | Google Search Images Same Surveillance State, Different War — The Atlantic Friday April 10 th , 2015 at 5:20 PM Master Feed : The Atlantic 1 Share How government justification for mass surveillance during the war on drugs turned into rationalization for spying on citizens in the war on terror It's been a long 22 months since the first of thousands of classified government documents became public in what has turned into a drumbeat of astonishing revelations about the scope of mass surveillance carried out by the United States government. On Tuesday evening, USA Today detailed a massive surveillance operation, run by the intelligence arm of the Drug Enforcement Agency, that began in 1992. The DEA revealed the existence of the now-discontinued program back in January, and USA Today 's account offers remarkable details about how it worked. The program, which enabled the United States