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  • Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts DEA wants “Black English” linguists to decipher bugged

    08/23/2010 9:32:08 AM PDT · by Nachum · 48 replies
    the smoking gun ^ | 8/23/10 | staff
    The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records. A maximum of nine Ebonics experts will work with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Atlanta field division, where the linguists, after obtaining a “DEA Sensitive” security clearance, will help investigators decipher the results of “telephonic monitoring of court ordered nonconsensual intercepts, consensual listening devices, and other media”