Justice Department defends legality of vast DEA wiretap program

USA Today: The Justice Department offered its first defense this week of a once-vast eavesdropping program carried out by federal drug agents in the Los Angeles suburbs over the objection of government lawyers who feared it was illegal.

The Justice Department urged a judge not to throw out a series of wiretaps agents used to arrest an accused marijuana trafficker, saying the surveillance was “authorized in accordance with state and federal law.” That defense came in a filing Monday in federal court in Louisville.

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