Eric Tucker of AP reports:
The Drug Enforcement Administration has formally acknowledged that it maintained a sweeping database of phone calls made from the United States to multiple foreign countries. The program has since been discontinued, the Justice Department said Friday.
The revelation was made in a court filing in the case of a man accused of conspiring to export goods and technology illegally to Iran.
Read more on Huffington Post, and see Marcy Wheeler’s comments.
Thanks to Joe Cadillic for the HuffPo links.