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Before The NSA, The DEA Used Phone Records To Track Drug Cartels

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NPR's Arun Rath speaks with USA Today reporter Brad Heath about how the Drug Enforcement Administration collected the records of billions of American telephone calls. The program began in 1992 and pre-dated a similar surveillance program at the National Security Agency.

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