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Sep

Operation Hemisphere: the White House's secret program to spy on citizens in the name of drug prevention

By Aaron Houston No comments yet AT&T, call records, DEA, Drug Enforcement Administration, metadata, National Security Agency, NSA, Office of National Drug Control Policy, ONDCP, ONDCP spying, Operation Hemisphere, phone, phone data, Protecting the Program, spying, white house

The New York Times revealed on September 1 that the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) — the same folks who brought us ads about marijuana users eating their own fists and other reefer madness messages — has secretly run a program that provides vast access to phone data records spanning a 26 year period. The program offers