Flutterby™! : DEA reverse engineering evidence

US DEA is gathering data through questionable means, and then reverse-engineering evidence to hide those data collection mechanisms.

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."

Not a new practice, here's my "routine traffic stop" story, in which a friend and I saw tens of police cars chase down a specific vehicle, which was later reported as "a routine traffic stop".