Ace of Spades Headlines

Holder pressed on U.S. drug agency use of hidden data evidence
"The August report revealed that a secretive DEA unit passes the NSA information to agents in the field, including those from the Internal Revenue Service, the FBI and Homeland Security, with instructions to never disclose the original source, even in court. In most cases, the NSA tips involve drugs, money laundering and organized crime, not terrorism." Who could have guessed that once this surveillance architecture was in place it would be abused and used on US citizens? Oh, wait. Everybody. [rdbrewer]