DEA Orchestrates Disinformation Campaign to Conceal Surveillance Powers
> For instance, the Court helpfully ruled that law enforcement's subjective reasons for pulling over a car don't matter so long as they can articulate some objective basis for the stop, like a traffic violation — even though the traffic violation is only a pretext.<p>This has to be the Supreme Court's worst ruling in recent times since Citizens United. The cops can stop you based on an "objective" <i>fake</i> reason? What a ridiculous idea. "Oh, I thought your light was broken...well nevermind that, let's search you for drugs now!" In what world is that a "common sense" ruling?<p>> The agent's declaration also disclosed that the DEA shut down the database in 2013 — after the Reuters story broke, in other words.<p>They didn't "shut it down". They only "suspended" it in September 2013...and tried to put it back online by the end of the year. I imagine they'll keep trying.<p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/why-we-sued-dea-mass-surveillance-still-illegal" rel="nofollow">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/why-we-sued-dea-mass-s...</a>