The Drug Enforcement Administration is involved in a lawsuit for targeting medical records using judge-less warrants called “administrative subpoenas.” The quantity of DEA administrative subpoenas issued unilaterally, i.e., without authorization from judges, is unknown but somewhere in the thousands according to one DEA spokesman.

Congressman Jason Chaffetz’s one-time confidential rejection for a job with the Secret Service was unlawfully leaked after he became a vocal critic of the Secret Service’s major malfunctions in recent years. The feds used administrative subpoenas to obtain phone records of whistleblowers at the Secret Service themselves who reported the unlawful leak.

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