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Monday, July 3, 2017

Obama tapped 3 million phones in single wiretap order in 2016



The Big Brother Police State
Fully and eagerly funded by the 
"small government" GOP Congress


It took US authorities a single wiretap order to intercept and record over 3 million phone calls and messages last year, the Wiretap Report 2016, published by the United States Courts, revealed.
The intercepts were carried out over the course of two months by an undisclosed government agency, which applied for the wiretap order in late 2015, according to the report, brought to media attention by the ZDNet website. 
"The federal wiretap with the most intercepts occurred during a narcotics investigation in the Middle District of Pennsylvania and resulted in the interception of 3,292,385 cell phone conversations or messages," the Wiretap Report 2016 reads. 
The phone tapping was authorized to facilitate the capture of 26 individuals, suspected of illegal drug-related activities in Pennsylvania.
It cost the US tax payers $335,000 and resulted in around a dozen arrests being made, the report said.
However, none of those detained were convicted or taken to court as the surveillance failed to produce any compelling evidence.
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2 comments:

GOODSTUFF said...

Not pick up by the mass media

Pennsylvania?

The wiretap order authorized an unknown government agency to carry out real-time intercepts (can you say DEA)


The phone tapping was authorized to facilitate the capture of 26 individuals, suspected of illegal drug-related activities in Pennsylvania.

It cost the US tax payers $335,000 and resulted in around a dozen arrests being made, the report said.

However, none of those detained were convicted or taken to court as the surveillance failed to produce any compelling evidence.

From the us courts report

In 2016, for reported intercepts, installed wiretaps were in operation for an average of 44 days, 1 day longer than the average in 2015. The federal wiretap with the most intercepts occurred during a narcotics investigation in the Middle District of Pennsylvania and resulted in the interception of 3,292,385 cell phone conversations or messages over 60 days. The state wiretap with the most intercepts was a 118-day wiretap for a narcotics investigation in Los Angeles County, California, which resulted in the interception of 559,003 cell phone conversations, of which 113,528 were incriminating.

Anonymous said...

pretty wild ...
how came Obama did that is fenomenal