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An Anonymous Coward writes:

Today the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request [aclu.org] 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.

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