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1 results foundAuthor: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General Title: A Review of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Use of Administrative Subpoenas to Collect or Exploit Bulk Data Summary: The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) conducted a review of the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) use of its administrative subpoena authority under 21 U.S.C. § 876(a) to collect or exploit "bulk data." Section 876(a) authorizes the DEA to issue administrative subpoenas, without court or other approval outside the agency, requiring the production of records that are "relevant or material" to certain drug investigations. 21 U.S.C. § 876(a). For purposes of this review, we relied on the Department of Justice's (Department or DOJ) definition of a "bulk collection" of data as a collection of a significant amount of data that is unrelated to an individual, group, or entity that is a target of an investigation, where the data is acquired or updated periodically on an ongoing basis. Typically, a " bulk collection" of data captures records relating to broad categories of transactions, such as the non-content records of all telephone calls handled by a particular telecommunications service provider. Collections of bulk data may include millions or even billions of data points and are often loaded into computers and analyzed by means of automated searches. The relevance of any individual record within the large-scale collection (such as a record of a single phone call) to a specific open investigation is typically not determined until after the bulk collection is acquired and queried. The Programs Our report addresses three programs in which the DEA has used its administrative subpoena authority to collect or exploit bulk data in recent years. The DEA has identified all of the programs discussed in this report as Law Enforcement Sensitive. Accordingly, we have removed program names and some operational details about the programs to enable issuance of this public Executive Summary. Details: Washington, DC: DOJ, 2019. 144p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 4, 2019 at: https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2019/o1901.pdf Year: 2019 Country: United States URL: https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2019/o1901.pdf Shelf Number: 155339 Keywords: Criminal Investigations Data CollectionDrug Enforcement Administration (U.S.) Subpoenas |