DEA agents have profiled passengers on Amtrak trains and nearly every major U.S. airline, drawing on reports from a network of travel-industry informants that extends from ticket counters to back offices, a USA TODAY investigation has found.
In most cases records show the agents gave the suspected couriers a receipt for the cash — sometimes totaling $50,000 and sent them on their way without ever charging them with a crime.
Louis Weiss, a former supervisor of the DEA group assigned to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Basically, you’ve got to feed the monster.
DEA would not comment on how it obtains records of Americans domestic travel. But court records and interviews with agents, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not permitted to discuss DEA operations, make clear that it is extensive. For example, Justice Department lawyers said agents took $44,010 from two people traveling on a train to Denver after picking them out during “a routine review of the computerized travel manifest for Amtrak.
PM Modi's remarks came a day after opposition parities questioned his silence and urged the government to call an all-party meeting to discuss the Kashmir issue. They also suggested sending an all-party delegation to Srinagar to take stock of the situation.
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