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Regardless of "fruit of poison tree" laws, information known is hard to unknow, and it wouldn't be surprising if information leaked to others could be used to l
by Klinky 13y ago
Regardless of "fruit of poison tree" laws, information known is hard to unknow, and it wouldn't be surprising if information leaked to others could be used to lead hounds to foxes via different paths.
- fennecfoxen 13y agoIndeed: what they routinely do in those cases is take some otherwise-ignorant agent, give them a little advice like "hey, you really should check out some stuff in this area" (nudge-nudge/wink-wink) and have him "rediscover" this information. Then they tell the court that it was Obtained Through That Agent's Normal Ordinary Investigations. "Parallell construction" aka "intelligence laundering". https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intelligence-laundering https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intel...