Out Of Control DEA Planned to Spy on Cars Parked at Gun Shows
Documents reveal further details of mass government spying
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
January 28, 2015
The Drug Enforcement Administration planned to use license-plate readers to scan cars parked at gun shows and monitor their owners as part of an anti-gun-trafficking scheme, internal documents have revealed.
The plan was discussed in DEA emails in 2009, according to the Justice Department, which oversees the government agency.
One heavily redacted email reads, “DEA Phoenix Division office is working closely with [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives] on attacking the guns going to [redacted] and the guns shows, to include programs/operation with [license-plate readers] at the gun shows.”
The DOJ claims that the plan was scrapped by higher ups within the DEA before it was ever implemented in the field.
“The proposal in the email was only a suggestion. It was never authorized by DEA, and the idea under discussion in the email was never launched,’’ DEA administrator Michele Leonhart told the Wall Street Journal.
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