the computer to checkout a good looking gals license plate to get an address, I am led to believe all of the fed contractors (except for snowden) would never do such a thing, cross their hearts and hope to die. I am having trouble buying that.....
Re: Come now. for every cop who uses
the computer to checkout a good looking gals license plate to get an address, I am led to believe all of the fed contractors (except for snowden) would never do such a thing, cross their hearts and hope to die. I am having trouble buying that..... Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep |
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Let me know when the NSA puts millions in prison.
We know that the "war on drugs" was used by the police to put millions in prison. We know that Snowden ran off with hundreds of thousands of documents that he swore to protect. We know that he bragged about being able to tap the communications of the president of the USA. We don't know that contractors with TS clearances working for the NSA are snooping on the President, celebrities, or ex-girlfriends, let-alone throwing millions in prision. Somehow, I don't think the parallels are very compelling. YMMV. Cheers, Scott. |
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I DO know
That the NSA hands illegally gathered info to the DEA which then constructs reasons to pull people over (parallel construction) as part of the war on drugs, your 1st example. Which in turn SHOULD make you rethink your position. But you won't. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140203/11143926078/parallel-construction-revealed-how-dea-is-trained-to-launder-classified-surveillance-info.shtml And it's a good thing this info came out, since I knew about it long before it was published, via a friend of a friend who did it for a living, which I could not state lest they come after me. |
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Fascinating.. Really! A How-to Manual, redacted-or-not.
No humorous wink-wink-nudge arabesque, but a sequential (straight-faced!) laying out of just How you.. [Ex:] [Remember, anyone, in the boffo Sir Ian Richardson trio? To Play the KIng ... House of Cards, when: the (woman driving a Saab) goes to pick up the original/sole-copy of a vastly incriminating document re the PM: and the 'Problem' is evident by a glance at the photo-on-top, held in a transparent envelope? She remarks on this fact; the supercilious custodian (think I recall him as the Heavy in The Raj?) replies.. One Averts One's Eyes. ... you'll recall this snippet: as she leaves with the file, her Saab explodes. [/] That's it exactly, and as already suggested n-times ago: for Spooks--in their chosen line of work and via its own Tradecraft-undercurrents of ethics-free pure pursuit of Dirt--the Enemy is indeed the Courts, the Citizens=='civilians'.. and anyone else seeking to artificially hamper The Hunt. Ever-for: its own sake. qed (for anyone who has ever become Identified with.. any Project whatsoever; thats 99% of the population I know!) And.. *parallel construction is a stereotypical McGuffin for every such clandestine mind-set, yet. Just a new obfuscation. * [oblig: cha. cha. cha.] ..for every employed euphemism Ugly/ugly--and familiar. Of course too, I could very well be mistaken: a million people might, next, come-Alive. (Believe that phenom is labeled "a Conscious(ness) Shock" in some quarters). Carrion. (Of course! I wish you Luck on the roulette-wheel of our massively-complexificated, jargon-bound Legal Monster.) Sometimes actual Reason does prevail and you've got enough chops.. not to piss-off any of their primadonnas of pettifoggery: they are soo Proud of their l33t skillz, ya know. (You do know.) ..Some pretty incisive quips in (the first 56) comments. Nary a bald-faced idiot-troll, that alone surprising. Anyone who's had direct experience of the sort of cop as makes it into our countless links of arrant-Cop-knavery, gets a free overview of just how the dis-USA's path to dissolution Works: er, with granularity. My next-door neighbor, way-back in the academic ghetto/Berkeley hills: seemed a bright young guy (late teens when I moved-in.) He decided to become a Cop. Met him only a few times over next couple years. That 'bright young kid' walked and talked like a (restrained-) Storm Trooper, all unawares as to his own changed mien :-/ Reminded of that Ace-bloviator, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur (and his "old soldiers never die"--soon a pop-song--closure to his farewell address, along with his idea of his last-thoughts-as would be: ..and the Corps! ..and the Corps! ... (and a third one.) Cadets went Wild.. so do they all. As for, "U.S.A."? Gehabt! Kindern |
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Back to the original Reuters article.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805 The two senior DEA officials, who spoke on behalf of the agency but only on condition of anonymity, said the process is kept secret to protect sources and investigative methods. "Parallel construction is a law enforcement technique we use every day," one official said. "It's decades old, a bedrock concept." FWIW. Cheers, Scott. |
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As usual, you swallow the party line
And I can't post any more on the subject |
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No need.
I understand that power can and sometimes will be abused. That's why good people need to be in these positions, and clear rules need to be in place. The power is not going to go away, no matter how much we wish it would. We need to make sure it's harnessed correctly. Hang in there. Cheers, Scott. |