Tag: Trial
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DEA Gets Unchecked Access To Call Records; Taught To Lie About Where They Got Them
Shortly after the Snowden leaks began exposing the NSA’s massive collection efforts, the New York Times uncovered the DEA’s direct access to AT&T telecom switches (via non-government employee “analysts” working for AT&T), from which it and other law enforcement agencies were able to gather phone call and location data. Unlike the NSA’s bulk records programs…
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What Happens After Jurors Get It Wrong?
About 300 people have been wrongfully convicted and exonerated in the U.S. thanks to DNA evidence. But overlooked in those stories are the accounts of jurors who unwittingly played a role in the injustice. One of those stories is playing out in Washington, D.C., where two jurors who helped convict a teenager of murder in…