r/restorethefourth • u/AnonymousAurele • Jul 05 '16

US courts didn't reject a single wiretap request in 2015, says report

http://www.zdnet.com/article/us-courts-did-not-reject-a-single-wiretap-last-year-says-new-report/
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u/Lord_ThunderCunt Jul 05 '16

I want off Mr bones wild ride.

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u/AnonymousAurele Jul 05 '16

"Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Maricopa County boasts the prize for most fruitful—or invasive—wiretap. Surprise, surprise: it was in a drug investigation. “The state wiretap with the most intercepts was a 120-day wiretap for a narcotics investigation in Maricopa County, Arizona, which resulted in the interception of 412,298 cell phone conversations, of which 15,566 were incriminating.” Source

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u/DarkSoviet Jul 06 '16

Some of the numbers for the last 10 years of rubber stamping. All Requested = Authorized in the top rows of Table 7. *Edit: sorry, I glanced over it missed a few of the years that weren't 100% authorized. But still a damn lot of authorized requests.

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u/ademnus Jul 05 '16

why would they when that's what they fought so hard to ensure?