Get real...SOD spies on Americans to tell DEA agents who, when & where to make up a reason to search

[dkf]

Then they hide the original spying and pretend they conveniently noticed speeding or a taillight out, or weaving or who knows whatever story to clean it up for the prosecution and trial. Agents are directed to lie and perjure themselves on the stand about the true origins of the case if it gets that far, but they depend on defendants pleading out.

Do you all understand how truly insidious this is?


A former federal agent in the northeastern United States who received such tips from SOD described the process. "You'd be told only, ‘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.

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.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805

[Gregorian]

1. With that subject line, I didn't expect a link. Holy cow. This is big.

I grew pot when I was a kid. And I'll tell you, what we all went through made us very aware of the things people are just now realizing.

[FirstLight]

2. fuck!

so basically ALL our rights are *poof* GONE now a days. I may as well swallow the fact that my posting and conversations on the phone are no longer my own.... where does it END? right?

I may not have any reason to fear the DEA...but at this point, ALL Govt agencies are working with the NSA to track EVERYTHING...

I am NOT a happy camper right now

[woo me with science]

3. This nation is gone. It has been perverted beyond recognition.

We are in the grip of something truly hideous.

[Th1onein]

11. It is, as Snowden said, "Turnkey tyranny."

All they have to do is turn the key, and we are prisoners and slaves. Hell, we already imprison nearly one quarter of the world's inmates.

[Savannahmann]

4. Yes I understand

But sadly, too many here don't. If we can't convince Democrats that this is a horrific policy, how can we convince the rest of the nation?

[hootinholler]

5. kick n/t

[Mojorabbit]

6. K and R nt

[woo me with science]

7. Kick.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. So basically ANY time someone mentions they're getting high on the phone, local police are notified.

Wonderful use of our tax dollars. Austerity my ass!

[dkf]

9. Oh better yet...they get to pick and choose who to target.

This is supposedly targeted at drug dealers and infrastructure, but who knows how it can be used or abused or if it stays with drugs?

[woo me with science]

14. There is no reason on EARTH

to believe it stops with drugs.

[DirkGently]

10. Another shocking practice we are apparently supposed to shrug off. n/t

[woo me with science]

15. It's unreal. Americans should be in the streets over this.

This is the definition of tyranny.

[woo me with science]

12. kick

This is the kind of example we used to use as a hypothetical outrageous abuse scenario.

[steve2470]

13. k&r nt

[woo me with science]

16. kick