DEA secretly tracked Americans’ calls for over a decade, court document reveals

[Jesus Malverde]

Source: Washington times

A new document reveals that the U.S. Department of Justice secretly kept track of Americans’ calls to foreign countries for more than a decade to track drug trafficking and other criminal activities.

The new database of stored calls was described in a filing Thursday in the case of a man accused of conspiring to unlawfully export goods to Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.


official said in the filing that the agency, which operates under the Justice Department, has long used administrative subpoenas — not federal court orders — to collect the metadata of U.S. calls to foreign countries “that were determined to have a demonstrated nexus to international drug trafficking and related criminal activities,” the Journal reported.

Although the court document only refers to outgoing calls, sources familiar with the program say it also collected data on incoming calls.





Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/17/dea-secretly-tracked-americans-calls-for-over-a-de/

[SoapBox]

1. Yay for me!

I've never called a "foreign country" in my life.

[Thinkingabout]

3. Information on domestic calls can also be gathered, its the old wire tapping method.

[SoapBox]

5. Well...

Even if they are taping domestically...I'm sure they will enjoy me sitting on the phone for hours, making doctor appointments for my Mom or trying to track down her medication prescriptions.

Other than that...I HATE the phone, landline or cell...I've other things to do than yap on the stupid phone all the time.

I'm also not cheating on my partner or having phone sex, so they can attempt to listen to me all they want.

[Taitertots]

10. It must be nice to be the only perfect person in the entire world, but...

the rest of us want privacy.

People don't listen to your calls, they are scanned by computers.

AND calling in for your mother makes you a prime target for DEA surveillance. How do we know you are know selling your mother's pain medicine (assuming she has some)?

[bananas]

6. Are you sure? You've never called customer support, or gotten sales calls?

A lot of telephone call centers were outsourced to Ireland, India, etc.
You may have called foreign countries without realizing it,
or gotten phone calls from foreign countries without realizing it.

[Thinkingabout]

2. This technology has been available for years, wire tapping is very old also.

If one thinks they can get.on communication devices and the information will be unavailable to law enforcement needs to open their eyes and ears. Before DNA etc it was hard to determine who the crooks was but this has changed.

[billhicks76]

4. NSA Is Mostly DEA

The special operations division of NSA is their biggest section and it's all DOMESTIC DEA. Terrorism is a fraud...they spend their energy going after ordinary Americans who participate in drugs because that's how the fleece people the most. Americans still don't get it....the War On Terror is just a rebranding of the unpopular, failed, thieving Drug War.

[bluestateguy]

7. I will be a nullifying juror in all drug cases

Consider me an automatic acquittal vote in all drug cases.

[blackspade]

8. But...old news....pole dancers....or something.....

Yet another story that undermines the whole concept of a 'free and open society'
Unless by free they mean, free to be spied on or open, as in your life is an open book to the government and its corporate masters.....

[JustAnotherGen]

9. Two different touch points - Trade with Iran and Narcotics

I love how the Washington Times crafted this article as if this was some super secret insider information. Any American can go to the State Department or Sec. of Treasury Website and find this information. I noticed they didn't put that in the article. . .

So two different subjects and they've mixed them up to cause confusion. *smh*

Don't do business with this guy . . . If you are and you making/receiving calls from this 'retired businessman' in London - yep - they are watching.

Me? I have no reason to speak with him. There's nothing he has to offer than I want or need.

First:

The new database of stored calls was described in a filing Thursday in the case of a man accused of conspiring to unlawfully export goods to Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-20959319

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Christopher Tappin sentenced to 33 months in US arms
A retired British businessman who admitted selling weapon parts to Iran has been sentenced to 33 months in prison by a court in the US.

The retired businessman, who pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting the illegal export of defence articles, was also ordered to pay a fine of $11,357.14 (about £7,100).

He admitted that between December 2005 and January 2007 he knowingly aided and abetted others in an illegal attempt to export to Iran zinc/silver oxide reserve batteries, a special component of the Hawk Air Defence Missile.

Second: to collect the metadata of U.S. calls to foreign countries “that were determined to have a demonstrated nexus to international drug trafficking and related criminal activities,”

Narcotics - International Drug Trafficking and related Criminal Activities


Don't do business with these guys either . . .

Kingpin Act Designations 11/19/2014

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OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL
Specially Designated Nationals List Update
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20141119.aspx

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The following individuals have been added to OFAC's SDN List:



ARREDONDO ORTIZ, Carlos Arturo (a.k.a. "MATEO&quot ; DOB 22 Nov 1966; POB Itagui, Antioquia, Colombia; citizen Colombia; Cedula No. 98520515 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNTK].


BEDOYA LOPEZ, Gildardo de Jesus; DOB 18 Dec 1963; POB Abejorral, Antioquia, Colombia; citizen Colombia; Cedula No. 70560012 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNTK] (Linked To: COLOMBIANA DE BIOCOMBUSTIBLES S.A.; Linked To: REPRESENTACIONES MIDAS; Linked To: GARCES Y BEDOYA CIA. LTDA).


ECHEVERRI PAREJA, Oscar Alonso (a.k.a. "MOSCO&quot ; DOB 07 May 1971; POB Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia; citizen Colombia; Cedula No. 98564040 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNTK] (Linked To: ACUAMATERIALES Y CIA. LIMITADA).


GALLEGO ORREGO, Margarita Zulay; DOB 18 Oct 1953; POB Yolombo, Antioquia, Colombia; citizen Colombia; Cedula No. 32334460 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNTK] (Linked To: ENVIGADO FUTBOL CLUB S.A.; Linked To: ENFARRADOS COMPANY S.A.S.; Linked To: CENTRO DE DIAGNOSTICO AUTOMOTOR DEL SUR LTDA.; Linked To: CAFETERIA ENVICENTRO; Linked To: TIENDAS MARGOS).


GARCIA ARBOLEDA, Edward (a.k.a. "ORION&quot ; DOB 04 Jun 1975; POB Urrao, Antioquia, Colombia; citizen Colombia; Cedula No. 98624193 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNTK] (Linked To: LA TIENDA DE MINGO; Linked To: INVERSIONES C.P.C.L. Y CIA. S. EN C.S.).


GUTIERREZ RESTREPO, Luis Fernando (a.k.a. "LUIFER&quot ; DOB 13 Aug 1958; POB Belmira, Antioquia, Colombia; citizen Colombia; Cedula No. 70550107 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNTK] (Linked To: ROBIREPUESTOS; Linked To: IMPORTADORA MARENOL LIMITADA).


ISAZA SANCHEZ, Felix Alberto (a.k.a. "BETO&quot ; DOB 24 Apr 1966; POB Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia; citizen Colombia; Cedula No. 98517169 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNTK].


ISAZA SANCHEZ, Nelson Dario (a.k.a. "NENE&quot ; DOB 11 Aug 1967; POB Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia; citizen Colombia; Cedula No. 98521489 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNTK].


RUIZ MADRID, Adriana Maria; DOB 14 Dec 1968; POB Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia; citizen Colombia; Cedula No. 42897418 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNTK] (Linked To: CARYTES ENCANTO Y BELLEZA).


UPEGUI GALLEGO, Juan Pablo; DOB 16 Oct 1980; POB Itagui, Antioquia, Colombia; citizen Colombia; Cedula No. 3391839 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNTK] (Linked To: ENVIGADO FUTBOL CLUB S.A.; Linked To: ENFARRADOS COMPANY S.A.S.; Linked To: CENTRO DE DIAGNOSTICO AUTOMOTOR DEL SUR LTDA.).


The following entities have been added to OFAC's SDN List:


ACUAMATERIALES Y CIA. LIMITADA, Carrera 51 B No. 12 Sur 21 Piso 2, Medellin, Colombia; NIT # 811022933-3 (Colombia) [SDNTK].


CAFETERIA ENVICENTRO, Carrera 48 No. 49 Sur 45, Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia; Matricula Mercantil No 138589 (Aburra Sur) [SDNTK].


CARYTES ENCANTO Y BELLEZA, Calle 6AS 43 A LC 3188, Medellin, Colombia; Centro Comercial Oviedo, Local 3188, El Poblado, Medellin, Colombia; Matricula Mercantil No 40551702 (Medellin) [SDNTK].


CENTRO DE DIAGNOSTICO AUTOMOTOR DEL SUR LTDA. (a.k.a. ENVICENTRO), Carrera 48 No. 49 Sur 45, Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia; NIT # 800233878-1 (Colombia) [SDNTK].


COLOMBIANA DE BIOCOMBUSTIBLES S.A. (a.k.a. COLBIO), Carrera 15 No. 90-66 Int. 103, Medellin, Colombia; Calle 36A Sur No. 46A-81, Centro Comercial Metro Sur, Local 240, Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia; Km. 53 Via Santa Fe de Antioquia, Vereda Ahuyamal, Sopetran, Antioquia, Colombia; Km. 4 Via al Bagre, Caucasia, Antioquia, Colombia; Website www.colbio.com; NIT # 900089105-2 (Colombia) [SDNTK].


ENFARRADOS COMPANY S.A.S., Carrera 48 No. 46 Sur 150, Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia; NIT # 900347098-6 (Colombia) [SDNTK].


ENVIGADO FUTBOL CLUB S.A. (a.k.a. ENVIGADO F.C.), Carrera 48 No. 46 Sur 150, Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia; Website www.envigadofutbolclub.net; NIT # 900470848-9 (Colombia) [SDNTK].


GARCES Y BEDOYA CIA. LTDA, Carrera 50 No. 37-35, Medellin, Colombia; NIT # 800119082-9 (Colombia) [SDNTK].


IMPORTADORA MARENOL LIMITADA, Carrera 50 No. 39-71, Medellin, Colombia; NIT # 800104353-4 (Colombia) [SDNTK].


INVERSIONES C.P.C.L. Y CIA. S. EN C.S., Carrera 48 No. 25 B Sur 12, Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia; NIT # 900315175-8 (Colombia) [SDNTK].


LA TIENDA DE MINGO, Calle 5 D No. 6 125, Medellin, Colombia; Matricula Mercantil No 16218702 (Medellin) [SDNTK].


REPRESENTACIONES MIDAS, Plaza Envigado, Local 89, Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia; Calle 40 Sur No. 40 20, Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia; Matricula Mercantil No 54512 (Aburra Sur) [SDNTK].


ROBIREPUESTOS, Carrera 50 No. 41-41 Local 112, Medellin, Colombia; Matricula Mercantil No 21-438991-02 (Medellin) [SDNTK].


TIENDAS MARGOS (a.k.a. "MARGO'S&quot , Calle 38A Sur No. 43A 41, Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia; Matricula Mercantil No 5352 (Aburra Sur) [SDNTK].

^UP^ I hope we see an expansion of legalized marijuana so we can say - you have no need for blow. Relax - and smoke a joint instead. It's legal.

[George II]

11. I was thinking exactly the same things....

...and the Washington Times? Overall it's a pretty weak article.