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DEA Has Massive Phone Data Trove

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Going back to 1987.

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The NSA isn't the only government agency keeping reams of phone data. The Drug Enforcement Agency's Hemisphere Project, revealed in documents obtained by a peace activist, keeps data on every call that goes through an AT&T switch, going back as far as 1987—farther than the NSA's records, and unlike the...

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