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DEA's Special Operations Division in Media Crosshairs

By Jeralyn, Section Crime Policy
Posted on Mon Aug 05, 2013 at 12:56:42 PM EST
Tags: DEA, Special Operations Division (all tags)
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I'm delighted to see the media get on the case of the DEA Special Operations division.

A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.

Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin - not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges.

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