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title: ""The Drug Enforcement Administration secretly collected data in bulk…"
date: 2019-04-01
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships shared a link.
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# "The Drug Enforcement Administration secretly collected data in bulk…

*April 1, 2019 · Facebook*

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[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/politics/dea-money-counter-records.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/politics/dea-money-counter-records.html){target="_blank"}
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\"The Drug Enforcement Administration secretly collected data in bulk about Americans' purchases of money-counting machines --- and took steps to hide the effort from defendants and courts --- before quietly shuttering the program in 2013 amid the uproar over the disclosures by the National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, an inspector general report found.\"\
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[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/politics/dea-money-counter-records.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/politics/dea-money-counter-records.html){target="_blank"}
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