The National Security Agency is "blurring the lines" between the war on drugs and the war on terror, according to a memo produced by the spy agency itself and published Monday by Glenn Greenwald's new website The Intercept.
The partially classified 2004 memo, written by an unnamed NSA employee who served as the Drug Enforcement Administration's "account manager," provides one of the most revealing glimpses yet at the ways counterterrorism and counternarcotics operations have melded since Sept. 11, 2001.
Its not like we expected any different, just shows you in these memos what lengths they went to though, intercepting a lot of non pertinent information.
The memo was published in conjunction with a new Intercept story detailing how the NSA recorded "virtually every" cell phone call in the small island nation of the Bahamas. The spy agency reportedly used a DEA "backdoor" to gain access to Bahamian cell phone networks.
In August, Reuters revealed that the NSA helped source information for a secretive DEA unit called the Special Operations Division. The NSA's information-gathering role was then obscured through a process called "parallel construction" when the drug agency brought criminal charges http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/19/nsa-drug-war_n_5353819.html
Sounds familiar.
well honestly that's not too untrue.
When you buy coke, undoubtedly that cash is funding cartels, who are killing innocent people.
The thing is, darknetmarkets could remove the cartel as the middleman, so I see darknetmarkets as going the other way. But the truth is, right now the market is not big enough that you're NOT funding terrorists. Maybe your LSD and RC's and mescaline and pot isn't going to cartels. But coke and meth and heroin probably are.