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.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" fake 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?> The agent's declaration also disclosed that the DEA shut down the database in 2013 — after the Reuters story broke, in other words.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.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/why-we-sued-dea-mass-s...