On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:59:55 -0500 grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote:
> https://theintercept.com/2018/01/09/dark-side-fbi-dea-illegal-searches-secret-evidence/ this is from 2013 - and it wasn't news at that time either https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intelligence-laundering "DEA and NSA Team Up to Share Intelligence, Leading to Secret Use of Surveillance in Ordinary Investigations" > https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/01/09/us-secret-evidence-erodes-fair-trial-rights > https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/us0118.pdf > > To search the vehicle without revealing the phone calls as their > original source, DEA agents set up an elaborate ruse. > > Alverez-Tejeda and his girlfriend were stopped at a traffic light. As > the light turned green, the car in front of them started to move and > then stopped quickly. Alverez-Tejeda braked in time, but a truck > rear-ended him. As Alverez-Tejeda inspected the damage, police arrived > and arrested the truck driver for drunken driving. Officers instructed > Alverez-Tejeda and his girlfriend to drive their car to a parking lot, > leave the keys in the car, and sit in the police cruiser for > processing. Just then, a car thief jumped into Alverez-Tejeda’s car > and drove off. Police recovered the car, obtained a search warrant, > and found cocaine and methamphetamine. > Other than Alverez-Tejeda and his girlfriend, every person involved in > this piece of theater was a DEA agent or local police officer: the > person driving the car in front of Alverez-Tejeda’s, the “drunk” truck > driver, even the supposed car thief. > > In a case Human Rights Watch discovered, security video at a New > Mexico bus station showed a DEA agent illegally searching luggage left > on a Greyhound bus during a layover. When passengers returned, the DEA > agent asked for consent to search > > “A growing body of evidence suggests that the federal government is > deliberately concealing methods used by intelligence or law > enforcement agencies to identify or investigate suspects — including > methods that may be illegal,” the report states. “It does so by > creating a different story about how agents discovered the > information, and as a result, people may be imprisoned without ever > knowing enough to challenge the potentially rights-violating origins > of the cases against them.” > > “Justice cannot rest on secret evidence, and the shadows are where > abuses flourish,” > > > USA on HRW list, lol.
