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Sort of > CONCEALING A TIP > One current federal prosecutor learned how agents were using SOD tips after a drug agent misled him, the prosecutor told Reuters.
by monocasa 3y ago
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> One current federal prosecutor learned how agents were using SOD tips after a drug agent misled him, the prosecutor told Reuters. In a Florida drug case he was handling, the prosecutor said, a DEA agent told him the investigation of a U.S. citizen began with a tip from an informant. When the prosecutor pressed for more information, he said, a DEA supervisor intervened and revealed that the tip had actually come through the SOD and from an NSA intercept.
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE97409S/ https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE97409S/
- austin-cheney 3y agoThe problem did not occur at the NSA, because the NSA is not law enforcement, but at the DEA which is law enforcement. The DEA should have applied for a warrant and immediately notified their attorneys of the evidence source.
- timschmidt 3y agoThat is expecting the fox to watch the hen house.
- austin-cheney 3y agoIt is expecting the DEA to do their jobs so that a half competent defense attorney does not invalidate the evidence.
- timschmidt 3y agoWhile you've been expecting that, they've been doing this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
- austin-cheney 3y agoAlready responded to that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39190257 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39190257
- timschmidt 3y ago> A good defense attorney would get that tossed. Sure. Easy to object to something secret, which has a carefully crafted cover story. My defense attorney is psychic too. /s