Hundreds of federal, state and local U.S. law-enforcement agencies have access without court oversight to a database of more than 150m money transfers between people in the U.S. and in more than 20 countries, according to internal program documents and an investigation by Sen. Ron Wyden.
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Little-known surveillance program captures money transfers between U.S. and more than 20 countries
“It’s a law-enforcement investigative tool,” Mr. Lebel said. “We don’t broadcast it to the world, but we don’t run from or hide from it either.”
