{"id":9379,"date":"2013-09-02T09:29:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T09:29:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T09:29:33","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9379","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/02\/us\/drug-agents-use-vast-phone-trove-eclipsing-nsas.html?hp\">Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.\u2019s<\/a> by Scott Shane and Colin Moynihan:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&amp;T database that contains the records of decades of Americans\u2019 phone calls \u2014 parallel to but covering a far longer time than the National Security Agency\u2019s hotly disputed collection of phone call logs. <\/p>\n<p>The Hemisphere Project, a partnership between federal and local drug officials and AT&amp;T that has not previously been reported, involves an extremely close association between the government and the telecommunications giant. <\/p>\n<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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9379\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}