NSA Tools For Spying on Foreign Terrorists Used By DEA to Bust Americans

[ravdin]

Via Reuters:

A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.

Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin - not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges.

The DEA's Orwellian term for lying about the sources of their information is "Parallel Construction". The idea is to work backwards when creating a case against a defendant so that the sources (such as a wiretap or informant) is concealed. Of course, this makes it impossible for a defendant to challenge the evidence. Worse still is that the policy's program itself, is, of course, a secret.

Land of the free, indeed!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805

 

[Tony]

Police state America.

 

[MiloMinderbinder]

Via Reuters:



The DEA's Orwellian term for lying about the sources of their information is "Parallel Construction". The idea is to work backwards when creating a case against a defendant so that the sources (such as a wiretap or informant) is concealed. Of course, this makes it impossible for a defendant to challenge the evidence. Worse still is that the policy's program itself, is, of course, a secret.

Land of the free, indeed!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805

If that's true, then that's it.