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It could be an interesting point. Does any investigation which used data from the NSA, especially early in the investigation to obtain warrants and more data s
by NickNameNick 13y ago
It could be an interesting point.
Does any investigation which used data from the NSA, especially early in the investigation to obtain warrants and more data suffer from a 'fruit of the poisoned tree' problem, where much of the evidence used later could be declared inadmissible on appeal?
Has 'trying to be helpful' on the part of the NSA and/or FBI poisoned thousands of convictions?
- pilsetnieks 13y agoConsidering the article, 50 planned attacks would not result in thousands of convictions, and it isn't known how many of them were in the US (Other countries could have different standards for evidence or may have, in good faith, believed that it was all acquired legally.) Even so, the point was not that some people were convicted of planning attacks but that the attacks were prevented. Meanwhile, it's the method of prevention that should be disputed, not the fact of it.