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Fiona Tang writes in ACLU FOIA Seeks Information About How Government Launders Evidence:
Today the ACLU [American Civil Liberties Union] filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking records related to "parallel construction," the government's practice of falsifying a trail of evidence in order to conceal controversial investigative techniques from the courts and the public.
Under parallel construction, instead of disclosing how its investigation actually took place, the government presents a sanitized version of events. The practice allows the government to evade legal challenges to the use of such techniques, and also to keep the very existence of such techniques a secret. Recent news reports have shown that parallel construction might be far more common than we'd like to think, so we've asked the government to provide any records it has documenting the practice.
... parallel construction has been used to cover up some of the most notorious surveillance techniques in the past decade. It initially captured the public's attention in August 2013, when Reuters published an article scrutinizing the elusive Drug Enforcement Administration Special Operations Division's use of the practice. Parallel construction received renewed attention this past May, when a non-disclosure agreement between the FBI and the Oklahoma City Police Department was released through a state records request. The non-disclosure agreement governs the use of cell site simulators—colloquially known as "stingrays"—and requires that the Oklahoma City Police Department use the technology for "lead purposes only," further explaining that the agency must "use additional and independent investigative means and methods . . . that would be admissible at trial" in lieu of disclosing to the defendant the fact that a stingray device was used.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 20 2016, @01:00AM
And how many cops were fired? Held in contempt? Imprisoned for Fraud, or Lying under Oath?
The best you can say about the police is "All animals are created equal and some are created more equal". Worse "Occupying Force" or "the Thin Blue Line Gang".
If the police wants are respect again, instead of being one side of War on "We the People". They need to act the same as they treat us. If you or I shot some, then we are arrested and tried. The police, it seams more like a "paid vacation" paid by us, until some says "It was justified, he was scared. Oh, it gave him PSDT, retire and full pension", again paid by us.
The different between a "Terrorist" and "Tyrannical Government"... The "Tyrannical Government" calls all against their rule a "Terrorist". Remember history is written by the winner.