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Federal and State Wiretaps Skyrocket in Trumps First Year
Law Enforcement Sought 3,800 TapsNot One Request RejectedAnd Its Not All Drug Dealers.
By David Cay Johnston, DCReport Editor-in-Chief
The number of court-approved federal wiretaps rose 30% during Donald Trumps first year in office, the latest indicator sign of how his administration is shifting our government from facilitating a healthy society into something closer to a police state.
Not a single wiretap request, federal or state, was rejected by any judge, an annual disclosure report from the federal courts released on Wednesday. Nearly all the taps were of mobile phones.
The report does not include national security interceptswhere, according to a separate report, judges rejected more requests last year than they had, in total, over the 38 years before that.
As for the new wiretapping report, while of 3,813 taps were sought and approved, that almost certainly understates the actual number by close to a thousand. Thats because each year many officials were slow complying with the annual disclosures that Congress requires. Based on reports in the previous decade, which had to be revised because officials were late reporting approved wiretaps, as Congress requires they do annually.
More: https://www.dcreport.org/2018/06/29/federal-and-state-wiretaps-skyrocket-in-trumps-first-year/
Law Enforcement Sought 3,800 TapsNot One Request RejectedAnd Its Not All Drug Dealers.
By David Cay Johnston, DCReport Editor-in-Chief
The number of court-approved federal wiretaps rose 30% during Donald Trumps first year in office, the latest indicator sign of how his administration is shifting our government from facilitating a healthy society into something closer to a police state.
Not a single wiretap request, federal or state, was rejected by any judge, an annual disclosure report from the federal courts released on Wednesday. Nearly all the taps were of mobile phones.
The report does not include national security interceptswhere, according to a separate report, judges rejected more requests last year than they had, in total, over the 38 years before that.
As for the new wiretapping report, while of 3,813 taps were sought and approved, that almost certainly understates the actual number by close to a thousand. Thats because each year many officials were slow complying with the annual disclosures that Congress requires. Based on reports in the previous decade, which had to be revised because officials were late reporting approved wiretaps, as Congress requires they do annually.
More: https://www.dcreport.org/2018/06/29/federal-and-state-wiretaps-skyrocket-in-trumps-first-year/
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Federal and State Wiretaps Skyrocket in Trump's First Year (Original Post)
MelissaB
Jul 2018
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How do you know that this isn't in connection to Mueller's investigation?
Baitball Blogger
Jul 2018
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Baitball Blogger
(46,702 posts)1. How do you know that this isn't in connection to Mueller's investigation?
Or to directly target people involved in high crime organizations?
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)2. "The report does not include national security intercepts..."
That's my guess.
Baitball Blogger
(46,702 posts)4. If they are targeting journalist or political opponents, that's the
main worry, since it's pure, unadulterated fascism.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)5. Noticed the same,just a general
aggregate number. Notice is talked about FISA also.
Mark Warner started going that direction until he caught himself doing Wine Talk.
Takket
(21,563 posts)3. Wow...
That seems hard to believe considering how upset the president seems to be with 4th amendment overreaches.