Parallel construction, how the NSA is filtering drug information to the DEA

[nontheist]

So the NSA spying program is only concerned about terrorism right? Think again, not only do the agencies share the information they are told after receiving the information to "recreate" an investigation to obtain the information given to them legally and by no means tell anyone where the information originated. The farce is called Parallel Construction. SOD The unit of the DEA that distributes the information is called the Special Operations Division, or SOD. Two dozen partner agencies comprise the unit, including the FBI, CIA, NSA, Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Homeland Security.

A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.

Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin - not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges.

A former federal agent in the northeastern United States who received such tips from SOD described the process. "You'd be told , Be at a certain truck stop at a certain time and look for a certain vehicle.' And so we'd alert the state police to find an excuse to stop that vehicle, and then have a drug dog search it," the agent said.

"PARALLEL CONSTRUCTION"

After an arrest was made, agents then pretended that their investigation began with the traffic stop, not with the SOD tip, the former agent said. The training document reviewed by Reuters refers to this process as "parallel construction."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-dea-sod-20130805,0,5453047.story

 

[NoDrama]

So the NSA spying program is only concerned about terrorism right? Think again, not only do the agencies share the information they are told after receiving the information to "recreate" an investigation to obtain the information given to them legally and by no means tell anyone where the information originated. The farce is called Parallel Construction.

A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans. Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin - not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges. A former federal agent in the northeastern United States who received such tips from SOD described the process. "You'd be told , Be at a certain truck stop at a certain time and look for a certain vehicle.' And so we'd alert the state police to find an excuse to stop that vehicle, and then have a drug dog search it," the agent said. "PARALLEL CONSTRUCTION" After an arrest was made, agents then pretended that their investigation began with the traffic stop, not with the SOD tip, the former agent said. The training document reviewed by Reuters refers to this process as "parallel construction."

Standard operating procedure to get around the "probable cause" laws.

 

[Doer]

Well, see that is the problem. The NSA is feeding the IRS, but not to collect. That would really backfire.

No the use it to slay opponents cred and sway elections. When they do, like Bush-Gore and Obama-Mitt, well, we see it is getting increasingly ugly. The more ugly it gets the more WE don't like it. The Light of Knowledge kills scum in this country.

And we are constantly re-defining even that. Don't name you kids Weiner, I'd say.

 

[nontheist]

Standard operating procedure to get around the "probable cause" laws.

This is one of the most openly fascist programs I have seen. I can't wait to hear the bullshit from the "who cares what NSA records" libtard fangroups.

 

[NoDrama]

This is one of the most openly fascist programs I have seen. I can't wait to hear the bullshit from the "who cares what NSA records" libtard fangroups.

You can get away with any nefarious activity as long as you type " How can I love Obama more?" or "Obama is the greatest president evah!" into your google search. It will cancel out all the dissention.

 

[Doer]

Damn, Son! I have seen that. Sickening. Google is almost worthless with agenda and getting worse.

I'm G-second page, now. But, some is buried. The key words lead to Anti-Con madness. And Google has already said they were nose deep in this NSA business. Big DEM $$$ and big DEM cheater.

See my .sig

 

[ChesusRice]

So the NSA spying program is only concerned about terrorism right? Think again, not only do the agencies share the information they are told after receiving the information to "recreate" an investigation to obtain the information given to them legally and by no means tell anyone where the information originated. The farce is called Parallel Construction. SOD The unit of the DEA that distributes the information is called the Special Operations Division, or SOD. Two dozen partner agencies comprise the unit, including the FBI, CIA, NSA, Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Homeland Security.




A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.

Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin - not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges.

A former federal agent in the northeastern United States who received such tips from SOD described the process. "You'd be told , Be at a certain truck stop at a certain time and look for a certain vehicle.' And so we'd alert the state police to find an excuse to stop that vehicle, and then have a drug dog search it," the agent said.

"PARALLEL CONSTRUCTION"

After an arrest was made, agents then pretended that their investigation began with the traffic stop, not with the SOD tip, the former agent said. The training document reviewed by Reuters refers to this process as "parallel construction."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-dea-sod-20130805,0,5453047.story

That shit has been going on for years. Cops will also illegally tap phones get info and then never say where the original info came from.


Here this is from The article

The two senior DEA officials, who spoke on behalf of the agency but only on condition of anonymity, said the process is kept secret to protect sources and investigative methods. "Parallel construction is a law enforcement technique we use every day," one official said. "It's decades old, a bedrock concept."

A dozen current or former federal agents interviewed by Reuters confirmed they had used parallel construction during their careers. Most defended the practice; some said they understood why those outside law enforcement might be concerned.

"It's just like laundering money - you work it backwards to make it clean," said Finn Selander, a DEA agent from 1991 to 2008 and now a member of a group called Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, which advocates legalizing and regulating narcotics.

 

[Rob Roy]

Tax dollars at work.

 

[Moldy]

This is one of the most openly fascist programs I have seen. I can't wait to hear the bullshit from the "who cares what NSA records" libtard fangroups.

Pretty amazing coming from the "most left wing president" we've ever had huh? I'd say it don't matter if you're left or right, we're all fucked at this point. Time to band together and stop with the separation since we are all in the middle. The fucking DEA has been doing this for years, I wonder if the cases can be thrown out of court now? Ya, riiiight.

cc:NSA

 

[nontheist]

That shit has been going on for years. Cops will also illegally tap phones get info and then never say where the original info came from.

This isn't the point of this article even if it's true, this isn't about an illegal tap here and there. This is about agencies like the NSA standing before congress and American people promising they don't perform the practices knowing damn well they do. This is about an operation so dirty and pushing the constitution so far it has to be covered up in every event, from the people and from the legal system. This is about dumbass liberal hippies that need to actually combat a cause worth two fucks, instead of stupid shit like GMOs and going after guns that account for less that 1% of the problem.

 

[nontheist]

Pretty amazing coming from the "most left wing president" we've ever had huh? I'd say it don't matter if you're left or right, we're all fucked at this point. Time to band together and stop with the separation since we are all in the middle.

Why would anyone be amazed? If they have been paying attention the last few decades the left wing democrats are becoming the party of fascism.

The fucking DEA has been doing this for years, I wonder if the cases can be thrown out of court now? Ya, riiiight.

cc:NSA

Did you not read all of it? The practice is to cover up where the information was obtained from both the justice system and the people. They're pushing the limits of the law and even they know it.

 

[GreenSummit]

im right with you on everything nontheist. i think we need a MAJOR revolution in the country right now. problem is too many are apathetic, are uneducated about the problems, dont understand the problems, and think what the gov't is doing is ok.

so as much as i want a revolution, i dont see it happening, i think we are pretty fucked.

 

[UncleBuck]

yes buck, is was common knowledge in the conspiracy theorist world but never openly proven anywhere. yes we all already knew, but now its official. now there is PROOF. something for us to really fall back on and bitch about ( its called evidence you douche)

you suck so bad at life its not even cool man. do you ever come to these threads to contribute? or just to get your sick self off on abusing others?

lol, this was no conspiracy under shrub. to pretend it was is just silliness at this point.

and i wasn't around back then, but even during the cold war this type of thing would probably not pass as conspiracy.

been going on for decades but it's only a problem now that the economy is improving under obama.

gotta have something to be mad about, right?

 

[NLXSK1]

Didn't care? What the fuck are you rambling on about again? Hell I didn't even know of this democrat born program until this morning like most, I just watched the NSA swear they didn't do this a few weeks ago.

The democrats dirty secrets are coming out and showing us we have a lot more to fear than Bush. Obama is going down in the history books for the president most hostile towards whistleblowers, how's that for progress?

Thanks for your partisan nazi rant though, nothing like seeing a libtard with bent priorities.

He did manage to get the nobel peace prize though...

 

[UncleBuck]

Didn't care? What the fuck are you rambling on about again? Hell I didn't even know of this democrat born program until this morning like most, I just watched the NSA swear they didn't do this a few weeks ago.

The democrats dirty secrets are coming out and showing us we have a lot more to fear than Bush. Obama is going down in the history books for the president most hostile towards whistleblowers, how's that for progress?

Thanks for your partisan nazi rant though, nothing like seeing a libtard with bent priorities.

you didn't know about these types of things until this morning?

gee, you're bright, aren't ya?

this shit has been going on for decades, sistah. that leaves two options:

A) you are not lying, but you are simple and naive and only found out about this this morning.

B) you are lying, knew this was going on for a while, and now you're just trying to make political hay to distract from the improving economy.

hanlon's razor says not to ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity, so i'm gonna have to go with (A). especially because you've never come off as bright enough to have forward thinking capabilities or anything.

 

[nontheist]

you didn't know about these types of things until this morning?

gee, you're bright, aren't ya?

this shit has been going on for decades, sistah. that leaves two options:

A) you are not lying, but you are simple and naive and only found out about this this morning.

B) you are lying, knew this was going on for a while, and now you're just trying to make political hay to distract from the improving economy.

hanlon's razor says not to ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity, so i'm gonna have to go with (A). especially because you've never come off as bright enough to have forward thinking capabilities or anything.

Instead of your pointless rants riddled with misinformation and or lies lets get back to the topic. So we now know the NSA lied and is sharing information on non-terrorist activity to other authorities while commanding other agencies to cover it up. What should we do about it libtard? You should be jumping out of your ass for civil rights here, if you're truly not a partisan hack.

Also I would like you to go ahead and provide us post information of SOD and their cross linking activity, since "you already knew about it" before anyone else.

 

[ChesusRice]

Instead of your pointless rants riddled with misinformation and or lies lets get back to the topic. So we now know the NSA lied and is sharing information on non-terrorist activity to other authorities while commanding other agencies to cover it up. What should we do about it libtard? You should be jumping out of your ass for civil rights here, if you're truly not a partisan hack.

Also I would like you to go ahead and provide us post information of SOD and their cross linking activity, since "you already knew about it" before anyone else.

Shit has been going on for decades.
1 it is in the article you posted a link to
2 before the patriot act that some guy named George got passed. We would simply ask our allies to spy on American citizens and pass the info on to us or we would route electronic communications out of country and back in so we wouldnt need a warrant


I'm not saying any of this is right

But Dont blame the fucking president. Shit has been going on for decades and it will only get worse as technology improves

And no act of congress is going to stop it

 

[UncleBuck]

Instead of your pointless rants

it's not pointless to postulate on why you would come crying wolf again with this decades old information.

riddled with misinformation and or lies

such as?

So we now know the NSA lied and is sharing information on non-terrorist activity to other authorities while commanding other agencies to cover it up. What should we do about it libtard? You should be jumping out of your ass for civil rights here, if you're truly not a partisan hack.

i'd say carry on like normal, since this has been going on all my life and will continue to go on.

Also I would like you to go ahead and provide us post information of SOD and their cross linking activity, since "you already knew about it" before anyone else.

did you really think the strongest nation in the world with the largest military and greatest intelligence apparatus ever was just going to let it sit idle and rust?

this same type of activity has been going on since the cold war at the very least, if not longer.

 

[UncleBuck]

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BUSH, OBAMA HAS ONLY EXPANDED THE PATRIOT ACT

turn off your motherfucking caps lock and let's see you even try to prove this one true.

most of the provisions of the patriot act have not been extended. see how i didn't even need caps lock for that?

 

[sunni]

turn off your motherfucking caps lock

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