Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans
WASHINGTON - 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.
A slide from a presentation about a secretive information-sharing program run by the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration s Special Operations Division (SOD) advises law-enforcement officials to disguise how they have gathered information for criminal cases by recreating the investigative trail through use of a practice called parallel construction. Some defense lawyers and former prosecutors say the practice could violate a defendant s constitutional right to a fair trial by burying evidence that could prove exculpatory.
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John Shiffman and Kristina Cooke
WASHINGTON | Mon Aug 5, 2013 9:11am EDT
(Reuters) - 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.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805
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