Parallel Construction: Secret Surveillance From NSA to DEA SOD / FBI, Blatantly 100s of Cases

[juan]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:59:55 -0500
grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://theintercept.com/2018/01/09/dark-side-fbi-dea-illegal-searches-secret-evidence/



	this is from 2013 - and it wasn't news at that time either 

	https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intelligence-laundering

	"DEA and NSA Team Up to Share Intelligence, Leading to Secret
	Use of Surveillance in Ordinary Investigations" 





> https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/01/09/us-secret-evidence-erodes-fair-trial-rights
> https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/us0118.pdf
> 
> To search the vehicle without revealing the phone calls as their
> original source, DEA agents set up an elaborate ruse.
> 
> Alverez-Tejeda and his girlfriend were stopped at a traffic light. As
> the light turned green, the car in front of them started to move and
> then stopped quickly. Alverez-Tejeda braked in time, but a truck
> rear-ended him. As Alverez-Tejeda inspected the damage, police arrived
> and arrested the truck driver for drunken driving. Officers instructed
> Alverez-Tejeda and his girlfriend to drive their car to a parking lot,
> leave the keys in the car, and sit in the police cruiser for
> processing. Just then, a car thief jumped into Alverez-Tejeda’s car
> and drove off. Police recovered the car, obtained a search warrant,
> and found cocaine and methamphetamine.
> Other than Alverez-Tejeda and his girlfriend, every person involved in
> this piece of theater was a DEA agent or local police officer: the
> person driving the car in front of Alverez-Tejeda’s, the “drunk” truck
> driver, even the supposed car thief.
> 
> In a case Human Rights Watch discovered, security video at a New
> Mexico bus station showed a DEA agent illegally searching luggage left
> on a Greyhound bus during a layover. When passengers returned, the DEA
> agent asked for consent to search
> 
> “A growing body of evidence suggests that the federal government is
> deliberately concealing methods used by intelligence or law
> enforcement agencies to identify or investigate suspects — including
> methods that may be illegal,” the report states. “It does so by
> creating a different story about how agents discovered the
> information, and as a result, people may be imprisoned without ever
> knowing enough to challenge the potentially rights-violating origins
> of the cases against them.”
> 
> “Justice cannot rest on secret evidence, and the shadows are where
> abuses flourish,”
> 
> 
> USA on HRW list, lol.