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We hear it all the time. They say "why are you opposed to our government having access to our private information? I have nothing to hide, so it doesn't bother me". But it could. Our government, and the DEA in particular, is obsessed with the drug war. So anything that could possibly be drug related attracts their attention. And even more so if it presents an opportunity for the thieves with badges to steal somebody's money. Clearly, they aren't interested in the drugs. Just the cash.
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WASHINGTON — Federal drug agents regularly mine Americans’ travel information to profile people who might be ferrying money for narcotics traffickers — though they almost never use what they learn to make arrests or build criminal cases.
Instead, that targeting has helped the Drug Enforcement Administration seize a small fortune in cash.
DEA agents have profiled passengers on Amtrak trains and nearly every major U.S. airline, drawing on reports from a network of travel-industry informants that extends from ticket counters to back offices, a USA TODAY investigation has found. Agents assigned to airports and train stations singled out passengers for questioning or searches for reasons as seemingly benign as traveling one-way to California or having paid for a ticket in cash.
The DEA surveillance is separate from the vast and widely-known anti-terrorism apparatus that now surrounds air travel, which is rarely used for routine law enforcement. It has been carried out largely without the airlines’ knowledge.
It is a lucrative endeavor, and one that remains largely unknown outside the drug agency. DEA units assigned to patrol 15 of the nation’s busiest airports seized more than $209 million in cash from at least 5,200 people over the past decade after concluding the money was linked to drug trafficking, according to Justice Department records. Most of the money was passed on to local police departments that lend officers to assist the drug agency.
Anyone concerned with big government surveillance shouldn't be voting for either Trump or Clinton.
You do have a point here.......yet, Hillary is already rolling and her plan has been in place for a longtime. Hopefully, Trump dislikes Hillary and her cronies enough to not let her get within miles of the WH or him.
Anyone concerned with big government surveillance shouldn't be voting for either Trump or Clinton.
It's too late, the systems are already in place so it doesn't matter who's sitting in the oval office.
Every time anyone uses their credit card, shops online or at a brick and mortar store, travels, surfs the web, emails, sends a text message or makes a call, shares documents - it's all stored away in a big database operated by the NSA. Each of us has a unique fingerprint with all the information gathered, all the people in our social and business circles identified, so no matter where we go, all of our activity is collected.
They do this with people in other countries, as well, only they make the statement they're not spying on anyone because if they've gathered information on everyone, they're not really targeting any one person in particular, so they don't consider it spying.
And not only do we share this with the Five Eyes, we share the XKeyScore with other countries, as well.
We've become the dirty Communist country we grew up loathing back in the '50's and '60's and nobody even cares.
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Most of the federal alphabet agencies need to be disbanded.
Actually the Fed govt needs to be removed and reset with one that "establishes Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,"
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