Posted on 11/21/2024 3:11:56 PM PST by Vigilanteman
The Justice Department has ordered the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to suspend most searches of passengers at airports and other mass transit hubs after an independent investigation found DEA task forces weren't documenting searches and weren't properly trained, creating a significant risk of constitutional violations and lawsuits.
The deputy attorney general directed the DEA on November 12 to halt what are known as "consensual encounter" searches at airports—unless they're part of an existing investigation into a criminal network—after seeing the draft of a Justice Department Office of Inspector General (OIG) memorandum that outlined a decade's worth of "significant concerns" about how the DEA uses paid airline informants and loose criteria to flag passengers to search for drugs and cash.
OIG Investigators found that the DEA paid one airline employee tens of thousands of dollars over the past several years in proceeds from cash seized as a result of their tips. However, the vast majority of those airport seizures aren't accompanied by criminal prosecutions. This has led to years of complaints from civil liberties groups that the DEA is abusing civil asset forfeiture—a practice that allows police to seize cash and other property suspected of being connected to criminal activity such as drug trafficking, even if the owner is never arrested or charged with a crime.
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The War on Drugs has always been a war on our legal rights.
The entire concept of civil forfeiture in abhorrent to the Constitution and should itself be made illegal.
I’m sure that the word has gone out, every person now carrying lots of cash will have to pony up the 10% for the Big Guy. Any deviation from the 10%, even just 9.95% instead of 10%, will be dealt with harshly.
So the Beltway has amped up the smuggling of cash.....
The War on Drugs was really a War on our Rights.
Trump effect.
A lot of interesting Rumble and YouTube videos on this subject.
https://rumble.com/search/all?q=dea%20airport%20search
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dea+airport+search
I was going to say sounds like it was just in time for the fleeing demoncrats and their allies as they leave the country.
“Justice Department Orders DEA to Halt Airport Searches Because of ‘Significant Issues’ With Cash Seizures”
excellent; now demand that all states and state agencies adhere to those same standards of search and seizure ...
CAS is an entirely different thing.
That is when you are carrying any amount of cash (Not illegal) and come to the attention of the police for what ever reason and they decide that they will just take your stuff and force you to sue them to get it back. They will not arrest you. They will not charge you. They will just say "we think this money is from a crime".
What crime? Well drugs is a common one. We think you are going to buy drugs. Or you sold drugs to get this money.
But I took this money from my bank account, here are the receipts and I am driving to California to see my daughter.
Ok, here is ten dollars of the thousands we just seized. Have a nice trip.
Actual case.
Took years for the man to get his money back.
This is what they are going to stop doing.
Or so they say.
Oh and don’t forget they run a drug test on the money that always comes back positive because ALL the money in the US will test positive. And everyone knows it.
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