{"id":43970,"date":"2020-06-03T16:39:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T21:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43970"},"modified":"2020-06-03T16:39:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T21:39:43","slug":"privacy-news-online-doj-grants-dea-permission-to-conduct-covert-surveillance-on-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43970","title":{"rendered":"Privacy News Online: DOJ grants DEA permission to conduct \u201ccovert surveillance\u201d on protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Privacy News Online:   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/doj-grants-dea-permission-to-conduct-covert-surveillance-on-protesters\/\">DOJ grants DEA permission to conduct \u201ccovert surveillance\u201d on protesters<\/a> by Caleb Chen (&#8221; The DEA is now surveilling protesters in the United States. BuzzFeedNews has uncovered a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/6935297-LEOPOLD-DEA-Memo-George-Floyd-Protests.html\" target=\"_blank\">memorandum<\/a>\u00a0that shows that the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has been granted powers by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to conduct covert surveillance on the ongoing protests sparked by the death of George Floyd. This past Sunday, the interim head of the DEA received authorization to perform law enforcement activities for anything that they deem appropriate from Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer. While the DEA is supposed to \u2013 like the name suggests \u2013 only investigate drug-related crimes, the DOJ has now granted the agency a two week carte blanche to conduct surveillance, carry out arrests, and more in regards to the ongoing protests.&#8221;) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy News Online: DOJ grants DEA permission to conduct \u201ccovert surveillance\u201d on protesters by Caleb Chen (&#8221; The DEA is now surveilling protesters in the United States. BuzzFeedNews has uncovered a\u00a0memorandum\u00a0that shows that the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has been &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43970\">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":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43970","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=43970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43971,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43970\/revisions\/43971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}