FBI and DEA Under Review For Misuse of NSA Mass Surveillance Data

Patrick O'Neill writes: The FBI and DEA were among the agencies fed information from an NSA surveillance program described as "staggering" by one judge who helped strike the program down. Now the two agencies are under review by the Justice Department for the use of parallel construction as well as looking into the specifics and results of cases originating from NSA tips. (Here's some more on the practice of parallel construction in this context.)

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Re:lies, damn lies, and sworn testimony

[Anonymous Coward]

There's no reach with the definition he used.

The police find the information by way of violating the law.
Having uncovered the information in question, they concoct some *other* way that they can or could have discovered it.
In court, under oath, they claim to have found the information this *other* way. That's the lie.

"Parallel construction" is a known violation of the defendant's rights, cloaked in a lie to keep said violation secret.