article_snippet.sent: USA Today uncovered the details of the program, whose vastness was not known until now, and whose practices, especially in gathering bulk information, later became a model for the Drug Enforcement Agency.
article_snippet.sent: It aims had been revealed earlier this year in a report from the Justice Department, though there was no mention of just how big a program created for the Drug Enforcement Agency in 1992 was, and the amount of data the Drug Enforcement Agency was authorized to gather.
article_snippet.sent: The goal was to infiltrate drug trafficking rings, especially those that were previously unknown to members of the DEA and federal government.
article_snippet.sent: a program created for the Drug Enforcement Agency in 1992 only recently shuttered, and was used for nearly two decades, with top the Justice Department officials in four administrations - George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama - approving the data collections.
article_snippet.sent: a program created for the Drug Enforcement Agency in 1992 was eventually halted not because a program created for the Drug Enforcement Agency in 1992 had run a program created for the Drug Enforcement Agency in 1992 course, but rather out of fear for public response should the details be revealed.
article_snippet.sent: Former officials who worked at the agency prior to and during a program created for the Drug Enforcement Agency in 1992's inception speak of the agency as a necessity at the time as The DEA attempted to combat the seemingly untouchable and infallible Colombian drug cartels.
article_snippet.sent: And this years before a program created for the Drug Enforcement Agency in 1992 had begun, and the agency was working with just the principles they had developed, two supercomputers and a team of analysts.
article_snippet.sent: Officials could not reveal those a program created for the Drug Enforcement Agency in 1992 helped the agency to capture, but we do know that Colombian barons Carlos Lehder, Griselda Blanco and Daniel Barrera Barrera, also known as El Loco, were all captured by or with the help of the DEA in the years prior to a program created for the Drug Enforcement Agency in 1992.
article_snippet.sent: Those successes were short lived however, and just three years later drug crimes were hitting record highs while also turning increasingly violent, especially in Miami.
article_snippet.sent: It was around this time that a program created for the Drug Enforcement Agency in 1992 was approved, with President George H.W. Bush, along with Attorney General William Barr and chief criminal prosecutor, Robert Mueller, giving the agency these new data collection privileges in the final months of his first term.
article_snippet.sent: With the program now shuttered, there are some concerns about the list of countries on the DEA list being revealed, though officials said that in many cases officials were aware of the program, which would likely be just as beneficial to officials as to the United States.
highlights_snippet.sent: a program created for the Drug Enforcement Agency in 1992 was approved by every administration beginning with President George H.W.Bush .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: a program created for the Drug Enforcement Agency in 1992 was only shut down in September 2013, this after Attorney General Eric Holder became nervous in the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: a program created for the Drug Enforcement Agency in 1992 also served as a blueprint for the Drug Enforcement Agency .