Parallel Construction Revealed: How The DEA Is Trained To Launder Classified Surveillance Info
from the americans-don't-like-it dept
Last summer, Reuters revealed how the NSA and other surveillance organizations would share info with the DEA and other law enforcement agencies, but then tell them to reconstruct the evidence via a process called "parallel construction," so that the surveillance would not then be discussed in court. This is highly questionable, and probably illegal, as a defendant has the right to know all of the evidence being used against him or her, and should also be told how that evidence was gathered, to make sure the collection was legal. But what's being done with parallel construction, is that the intelligence community is able to give "hints" to law enforcement, allowing them to come up with various pretenses for an investigation, avoiding ever having to reveal that the NSA or others used potentially illegal surveillance efforts. One example given in that Reuters report was how DEA agents would suddenly be given a tip like this: "Be at a certain truck stop at a certain time and look for a certain vehicle." The DEA would then have the local police come up with some pretense to stop the truck... and then when evidence is found they can claim it was a random traffic stop, when the reality is anything but that.After the Reuters report, C.J. Ciaramella used Muckrock to request all DEA training material and official policies concerning "parallel construction" and recently received nearly 300 pages of documents, much of it redacted, but still which reveals that this is common practice at the DEA and widely known. Much of it is in the form of PowerPoint presentations, complete with speaker notes, which say things like how careful DEA agents need to be around classified information because "it can screw up your investigation."
Our friends in the military and intelligence community never have to prove anything to the general public. They can act upon classified information without ever divulging their sources or methods to anyway [sic] outside their community. If they find Bin Laden's satellite phone and then pin point his location, they don't have to go to a court to get permission to put a missile up his nose.There are also training materials that discuss how parallel construction works, as well as the fact that in "the new post-9/11" era, a "national consensus" has been formed making it easier for the intelligence community and law enforcement to share information. It even refers to the federal courts as the intelligence community's "nemesis."
We are bound, however, by different rules.
Our investigations must be transparent. We must be able to take our information to court and prove to a jury that our bad guy did the bad things we say he did. No hiding here. However, we are also bound to protect certain pieces of information so as to protect the sources and methods.
To use it....we must properly protect it.
A lot of the documentation deals with how to deal with having classified information, and the focus seems to be on keeping that information away from anyone involved in the case. There is -- I kid you not -- a special group of prosecutors called "the Taint Review Team" -- to be called in when things get... well... tainted.
Another presentation asks "what is the problem with combining IC (Intelligence Community) collection efforts & LEA (Law Enforcement Agency) investigations in US courtrooms?" and then explains that it presents constitutional problems... and that "Americans don't like it!"
There's some more information in the documents, but it all basically points to the same basic thing: the less that law enforcement folks know, the better. If the law enforcement knows too much, call in the "Taint Review Team" to see what they can do to clean up, and see what you can use to get the judge to exclude classified evidence. All in all, it adds up to a nice little plan to allow the NSA to illegally spy on people, tell law enforcement just enough to target people, without ever revealing how they were caught via unconstitutional means.
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Really though, if they've reached the point where they consider the courts, and constitutional law/rules to be 'enemies', then it's pretty obvious they've become the very thing they think they're fighting: criminals and/or enemies of the US and it's citizens.
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-C S Lewis
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I will not have you arrested, have your sidewalk dug up, nor have glitter thrown on you, but survaillance will continue.
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Was this manual written by Mike "Your privacy can't be violated if you don't know about it" Rogers? You see, it can only an unacceptable technique to the citizens if the citizens know about it, right? That makes everything they don't know about fair game, right?
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excellent example
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Which doesn't seem to be far from the truth.
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Imagine if defendants could use parallel construction...
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Does all the time.
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Don't really have a problem with Parallel Construction
If it's just the Feds giving local police tips on who to watch for suspicious activity in the future, they could just call in an anonymous tip and everyone would be fine with it.
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The reason for forbidding evidence from a tainted source is to remove the temptation from law enforcement to become evil themselves, even if "for a just cause".
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No, you are confusing "everyone wouldn't know about it to question it" with "everyone would be fine with it." Besides, anonymous tips should be treated with a heavy dose of skepticism that will not be present with an intelligence tip, even if it should be.
They are two very different things in both cases.
In the general case, this "see no evil" approach allows the NSA/FBI/CIA to direct law enforcement for harassment purposes, with the officers so abused not even being aware. Combined with certain other issues currently in existence, the practical implication is that an NSA/FBI/CIA analyst could essentially have anyone they like arrested at any point, for no given reason at all.
One of those issues would be the shocking amount of legislation that almost ensures that each American citizen has committed multiple felonies a day. Others would be a litany of corruption within certain police forces, which of course should also show up in the NSA dragnet to make sure that a pliable cop is tasked with harassing/arresting the target.
Is the system used this way right now? We can't say with any degree of certainty, because a self-reporting agency would never report themselves doing that.
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Bravo. Your are totally correct and perfectly attuned to Community Gang Stalking with all it's surveillance felonies rationalized or "work arounded" by the scheming, lying, win at all costs degenerates with badges.
Rarely does anyone comment based on real world experience to explain the chicanery deployed on a daily basis by cops-Feds partnering with contract vigilante trash (Neighborhood Watch Groups using invasive technology w/o warrants).
Google:
--"stiffing the call"; --"the hand off method" of disseminating tainted info; --"tickling the wire" as entrapment; --Title 18 USC sec 2517 ( never mentioned after NSA wiretapping scandal?).
Even more disturbing is mind control-torture by contractors who track and call cops, who always seem to be following the vehicle surveillance teams using tracking devices w/o warrants.
Compartmentalized surveillance builds plausible deniability and results in selective enforcement: civil rights are not enforced by Gov scum.....ever.
You have no idea just how scandalous the secret m.o. Of the stratified surveillance state is. It's a lot worse then the crumbs offered by Snowden.
I'm the guy who authored The DOJ OIG complaint that Thomas Tamm heard about before talking to James Risen.
Badges-prosecutors-Judges-vigilante trash.......have all created a pattern and practice of developing civil rights violations as a secret exception to the warrant requirements for searches, seizures, and the use-dissemination of illegally obtained info. And, due process post indictment? Fawghetaboutit.....conspiracy to obstruct justice is normalized, internalized, and now carmelized into a big steaming, red, white, and blue American Shit Sandwich
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Law enforcement has to get a warrant based on presenting to a judge a case for probable cause BEFORE they can engage in such activity. And a tip from a citizen is not the same as a tip from another government entity.
Next, I don't think you get the most exactly what parallel construction actually is. It's using an illegal means to gain information to be used in a case against someone and then finding another way to get the same information all over again so that you can pretend you got it legally. If this were on the defendant side and dealing with ill gained money, it would be considered money laundering. In fact, we should actually drop the whole term "parallel construction" term altogether and just call it what it really is EVIDENCE LAUNDERING.
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How about, 'No'?
Investigations, arrests, charges, all of those things are supposed to be time consuming, require effort, and have careful checks and balances, precisely to protect the innocent from being steam-rolled by the system, weakening the system to catch someone you're 'sure' is guilty just makes the entire system a game of 'Who do I want to harass or throw in a cell today?'
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Feuding mobsters want anonymity. Spies & cops work to trace rumours back to their source.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
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All I can say is, fuck you, for dismissing my privacy so blatantly.
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Then its Construction and a False Construction at that!
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It is pretty clear that there has been a huge shift in moral since the towers fell. Now illegal means being stupid and getting caught as opposed to breaking the law. In this case, it should be noted that the other agencies' actions are the main problem and completely obliterate due process in these DEA cases.
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DEA-FBI-IRS all coordinate Joint Fed Local Task Forces, so this chicanery is presumed to be at the local level in county-state courts where the judges are more stupid, gutless, incompetent, indifferent, and cronyistic.
Much of the illegal surveillance on me was based on Project Slammer's bizarre breadth and scope, as described by Julianne McKinney.
The mind control entrapment technology has never been exposed in court by our wonderful, "fuck you", " Lie at all Costs" public punk servants known as State AG's and US Attorneys.
Why was "entrapment" legalized in 2006 War Commissions Act? There was no charges or civil suits for civil rights violations? Why was there a secret need to create a good faith defense for mind control entrapment?
What is "remote neural monitoring"?
What is "Silent Sound Spectrum"?
What is a directed energy weapon?
How are these sources-methods-tactics-technology used against targets, and how does The CIPA team plan on getting sec clearance to understand their cherry picked version of the tainted info?
My name is Thomas S Bean, and after 30 years, I've never had an interview from FBI or a US Attorney because classified programs are created by Presidential fiat power that IS NOT challenged or challengible without explicit notice ( Discovery-Due Process)?
What is tyranny by secrecy? What is tyranny of bad intentions by contract vigilante gang stalking (protected by cops)?
It's a lot worse then anything you can imagine.
Fed Judges are notoriously dedicated to the safe status quo protection of their own self interest concerning their health and exposure of their control files.
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It's almost as if - call me crazy here - citizens are the ones who employ you
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Understatement... they do tend to get really pissed off when the law is broken by those who are supposed to champion it.
When they violate the law to "win" at all costs, it isn't winning.
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One Country
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Cops triply so. HR looks for loyalty. The force is coercive.
And spies? You bet. Today's "poison" is clear -- all these double-agents masquerading as "public servants".
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That's right.
They despise civilians for being weak and cowardly enough to call them as part of the social contract: any aggression used by civilians can get you arrested regardless of the facts concerning self defense or provocation by aggressors when your minding your own business.
Civilians are considered by cops to be deserving of anything that happens to them.
Cops and prosecutors have broad descretion to engage in selective enforcement of the law: the system is very efficiently broken down into expedient guilty pleas regardless of all the facts exposed by balanced, zealous, confrontation on a fair playing field.
The police state Commie stooges have the injustice system totally rigged (cop crony jurors-judges-no defense attorney).
So......just how could secret abuse of invasive technology go unnoticed or policed by this many police state actors.....for this long.....if the system was so air tight and ineffable???!!!!
I gave explicit info to Minneapolis FBI concerning CIA Rendition flights landing at Apple Valley, Minnesota, airport with Afghani Heroin....and airport logs showed the same plane filed flight logs suggesting a route that facilitated money laundering at Alan Stanford's Carribean island. Later, FBI-DOJ used Stanford as a patsy not a source to go after money laundering of CIA heroin with all coconspirators identified and targeted under a legitimate RICO prosecution???!!!!
Ponzi schemes exploded onto the FBI radar under Mueller....showing a shift in policy towards scapegoating fall guys fronting for an entrenched organized criminality as part of a larger un indicted group (Illuminat bankers make money laundering on Wall Street into a normalized game for elites).
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What do mean "probably"? Falsification of evidence is *ABSOLUTELY* illegal.
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No matter where we think the evidence points. We aren't the arbitrator of any case, let alone all of them.
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They're told "Americans don't like it", and none of them even wonder why. No empathy, no self-reflection, no doubt. They know what they're doing is hated and illegal, and their only thoughts are on how best to hide their actions from the public.
No remorse, no feelings of guilt. Just bottomless sociopathy.
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That slides merely illustrates a "lesser of two evils" approach to privacy-security.
They "imagine" their beloved united states has the legal balance correct.
They cannot imagine the legislation & internal policies of intelligence agencies are (in fact) in the state Snowden shows them to be in.
Plausible denial. Plausible naivety. Plausible shock 'n bother.
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It's a lot worse then you know at DEA tit vulture land......a lot worse.
Who is "Mike Levine"???
Drugs make money because they are illegal, creating a controlled black market to ensure a monopoly operating w/o competitive priceing. This ensures outrageous profits, corruption, and fear of violence.
Street profits result in violence: fear works as part of a psy op so that police can rationalize fascism.
Everyone in power, is smugly benefitting from drug prohibition.
How could weed and shrooms.....be controlled and demonized?
Mother Earth's gifts......were disparaged wrongly to subvert free will and the due process Liberty interest in a course of medical care: it's a Constitutional Issue, too bad SCOTUS is a dumping ground for hacks, stooges, puppets of Illuminati control.
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This should ring all alarm bells at full motherporking loudness. It's one clear indication of an Executive going rogue.
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And no, law enforcement agancies are not exempt from RICO lawsuits. Just ask LAPD (love to be plaintiff's lawyer on that one).
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A violation of the officer's oath
Recall 18 USC 1001, where it is a felony to lie to a government employee. The law must apply to everyone or to no one. We must make it a felony for the government to lie to us. But wait, every time Parallel Construction is employed, everyone in the chain of the lie commits a crime.
So, now we not only suspend the Constitution to collect the data in an operation of pervasive surveillance, but it proves to be too tempting to those government employees who are restrained by the law, and when they can't get some secret court to give them permission, they find and institutional lie to permit it anyway.
Is it time yet to hold a Convention to consider how to amend and repair the relationship the present Leviathan State has with us? Or are too many people still afraid of losing their precious rights? Hello!
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If courts aren't available.....police state actors use a parallel star chamber to issue imperial secret fiat punishments by deploying Community Gang Sstalking.
That's the real facts supporting real legal issues that the FBI infiltrated traitors at ACLU....will not litigate.
What happened to The local ACLU litigator in Sioux Falls, SD, after I contacted his office?
Netralized using torture and mind control entrapment litigated as a domestic disturbance with Brady violations by Minnehaha Cty States Attorneys and The Second Circuit punk Judiciary.
The system works on an honor system: that's why it's a failure. Badges are lying criminal deviant scum dedicated to scapegoating as part of their heroic worship of themselves.
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