Lest we forget, the predecessor to the endless War on Terror, the endless War on (non-prescribed) Drugs, is still churning away, eating up our civil liberties too.
Ryan Singel writes:Do not let it be said that the Bush administration forgot the War on Drugs while waging the War on Terror.
The Drug Enforcement Agency, for one, continued and expanded the data mining records of phone calls and emails from the United States to Latin American countries in order to catch smugglers, according to the New York Times. The program began under President Clinton in he 1990s and expanded under President Bush. [Click to read more Phone and Email Data-Mining Used in War on Drugs, Too | Threat Level from Wired.com]
But, but, but that dime bag of cannabis might contain the nuclear bomb pass-key! Or might contain DNA from a terrorist-supporting nation!
