The DEA Pays AT&T For Real-Time Access To 26 Years Of Phone Records

The Drug Enforcement Agency can comb through roughly 26 years of phone records in their pursuit of big-time drug dealers through a newly revealed partnership with AT&T to provide the law enforcement agency with real time access to an unprecedented amount of user information.
According to reports from The New York Times and ABC News, the DEA has been paying AT&T since 2007 to work directly with the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program to offer access to every call that goes through the communications company's switchboard.

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