SOD this
2013-09-29 22:53:04.759191+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Reuters: Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans. I thought we'd really already covered this, but it talks about the DEA Special Operations Division (SOD), that gathers data in ways that can't necessarily be used in evidence ("illegal" is such a charged word, let's use other words), and then back-creates evidence to support convictions:
"It's just like laundering money - you work it backwards to make it clean," said Finn Selander, a DEA agent from 1991 to 2008 ...
The nice thing about ludicrously long sentences is that prosecutors really don't have to worry too much any more about whether or not evidence is actually admissable, because so few cases get to trial...