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DEA gets Amtrak passenger lists

2014-08-12 00:33:20.96281+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

The DEA has been watching Amtrak passenger lists. The article is short, and about how the DEA should have been getting this information for free rather than paying for it, but the fact that they're rifling through passenger manifests at all is profoundly disturbing:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that the Drug Enforcement Administration paid an Amtrak secretary $854,460 over nearly 20 years to obtain confidential information about train passengers.

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