{"id":37014,"date":"2019-03-30T09:58:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T14:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=37014"},"modified":"2019-03-30T09:59:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T14:59:05","slug":"nytimes-d-e-a-secretly-collected-bulk-records-of-money-counter-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=37014","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: D.E.A. Secretly Collected Bulk Records of Money-Counter Purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/30\/us\/politics\/dea-money-counter-records.html?action=click&#038;module=News&#038;pgtype=Homepage\">D.E.A. Secretly Collected Bulk Records of Money-Counter Purchases<\/a> by Charlie Savage:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Drug Enforcement Administration secretly collected data in bulk about Americans\u2019 purchases of money-counting machines \u2014 and took steps to hide the effort from defendants and courts \u2014 before quietly shuttering the program in 2013 amid the uproar over the disclosures by the National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, an inspector general report found.<\/p>\n<p>Seeking leads about who might be a drug trafficker, the D.E.A. started in 2008 to issue blanket administrative subpoenas to vendors to learn who was buying money counters. The subpoenas involved no court oversight and were not pegged to any particular investigation. The agency collected tens of thousands of records showing the names and addresses of people who bought the devices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: D.E.A. Secretly Collected Bulk Records of Money-Counter Purchases by Charlie Savage:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subpoenas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37016,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37014\/revisions\/37016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}