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US Government Approved 100% Of Wiretap Applications In 2015

Posted on July 6, 2016 by pogowasright.org

Kevin Collier reports:

A ten-year study of how state and federal law enforcement wiretaps suspects shows that the government is extremely efficient at the practice, and is only getting better.

The new report, conducted by the Federal Judiciary, looked at the prevalence of the FBI and state and local police petitioning for a warrant to surveil someone. Methods range from tracking their computer activity to bugging a home telephone or a room, though it overwhelmingly—96 percent of the time 2015—meant tracking or listening to their cell phone calls.

Read more on Vocativ.

h/t, Joe Cadillic

Category: SurveillanceU.S.

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