US government investigators have been demanding and receiving millions of money-transfer records from Western Union and similar outfits.Now US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) wants an investigation into this bulk financial surveillance.Wyden in a January 18 letter [PDF] asked the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General (DOJ-OIG) to investigate the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) relationship with the Transaction Record Analysis Center (TRAC), a non-profit apparently set up by the Arizona Attorney General that provides federal, state, and local government agencies with money transfer records.
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