The Intercept: DEA Insiders Warned About Legality of Phone Tracking Program. Their Concerns Were Kept Secret.

“There should have been no question from the very start that this program needed a proper legal analysis, to determine whether there was the authority for the government to obtain this type of information in bulk through administrative subpoenas,” said Jeramie Scott, a senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. “It’s a real failure of oversight and accountability that years went by without a proper legal analysis.” 

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The “advanced” products from AT&T appear to have involved the ability to uncover location data on cellphones, and to identify possible replacement phone numbers for so-called drop or burner phones, according to Electronic Privacy Information Center’s Scott.

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