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So suppose this is true: A former federal agent in the northeastern United States who received such tips from SOD described the process. "You'd be told only, ‘
by hughdbrown 13y ago
So suppose this is true:
A former federal agent in the northeastern United States who received such tips from SOD described the process. "You'd be told only, ‘Be at a certain truck stop at a certain time and look for a certain vehicle.' And so we'd alert the state police to find an excuse to stop that vehicle, and then have a drug dog search it," the agent said.
How do you square that with the claim that the NSA is tracking only metadata? I'd say you need the phone call contents to know where to stop a particular truck.
- mpyne 13y agoBecause SOD has more investigative inputs than just the NSA, and also because they are not required to track only metadata for foreigners. More mundane (and perhaps more likely) is that the source data for that kind of tip comes from wiretaps from existing open investigations. You might not get probable cause for a search based on the wiretap data alone, so SOD gets the local cops to alert on the car instead and "start" the follow-up investigation.
- walshemj 13y agoyes could be an informant or a undercover cop - back in ww2 the ultra decrypts where disguised as coming from other sources. You not going to tell some random cop this is from bob our inside man on the crew in case the cop is corrupt and sells out your DEA agent
- benburleson 13y agoSuppose you had enough (meta)data on a particular user, if that user spent a disproportionate amount of time at a specific truck stop, it wouldn't take too long to extract that from your data.
- mcovey 13y ago> How do you square that with the claim that the NSA is tracking only metadata? It's horseshit.