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To: KLP who wrote (348460)2/11/2010 10:32:21 PM
From: alanrs1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793725
 
These are the people that requested it.

>the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF<

This was their justification.

>suspects "use their wireless telephones to arrange meetings and transactions in furtherance of their drug trafficking activities."<

This is the result so far.

>U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisa Lenihan in Pennsylvania denied the Justice Department's attempt<

It really has nothing to do with this administration or Republican/Democrat politics. It is the continued erosion of some civil rights/liberties briefly alluded to in some old document nobody reads anymore. It's the war on drugs, in your name, with your support.

ARS

Actually, I've come to refer to it as the war on fish (in my head). And I wouldn't worry about the expense too much, the information is already collected, just not furnished. Yet.