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Local public records requests reveal national surveillance and 4th amendment violations

9/2/2013: Drew Hendricks, a handyman in Port Madlock WA, started out making public records requests to his local police department, asking if they were using cameras to record his license plate:

What he eventually found led to a major story in the NY Times today uncovering a massive secret database of ATT phone records going back to 1987, which the government used for criminal prosecutions while telling prosecutors how to lie to the courts and defense attorneys about the fact they’d gotten the information in violation of the 4th amendment. Law enforcement slideshow here.

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