{"id":10781,"date":"2013-09-02T09:39:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T14:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10781"},"modified":"2013-09-02T11:35:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T16:35:35","slug":"drug-agents-use-vast-phone-trove-eclipsing-n-s-a-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10781","title":{"rendered":"Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The government pays AT&amp;T to place its employees in drug-fighting units around the country. Those employees sit alongside <a class=\"meta-org\" title=\"More articles about Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/d\/drug_enforcement_administration\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Drug Enforcement Administration<\/a> agents and local detectives and supply them with the phone data from as far back as 1987.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/02\/us\/drug-agents-use-vast-phone-trove-eclipsing-nsas.html?_r=0\">Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.\u2019s &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The program was started in 2007, according to the slides, and has been carried out in great secrecy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There once was a time, back when the old AT&amp;T existed,\u00a0 when all\u00a0 phone companies viewed customer privacy sacrosanct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government pays AT&amp;T to place its employees in drug-fighting units around the country. Those employees sit alongside Drug Enforcement Administration agents and local detectives and supply them with the phone data from as far back as 1987. via Drug &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10781\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[188,940],"class_list":["post-10781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-privacy","tag-telecom-operators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10789,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions\/10789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}