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Glenn Greenwald on How Secretive DEA Unit Illegally Spies On Americans, Covers Up Actions
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/8/5/glenn_greenwald_on_how_secretive_dea_unit_illegally_spies_on_americans_covers_up_actions
Full transcript:
AMY GOODMAN: Glenn, I also wanted to ask you about a new story you just tweeted about that was published today by Reuters. The article begins, "A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.
Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly beginnot only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges. ...
"The unit of the DEA that distributes the information is called the Special Operations Division, or SOD."
Glenn Greenwald, can you talk more about this?
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Sorry to disappoint, but Obama will be President for the next three years. Try not to let your head explode. And try not to believe everything you read at infowars.
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(27,630 posts)With the very bookworm-ish host Amy Goodman?
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(68,868 posts)or critiques made from the left.
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(26,624 posts)of the judicial process, because theyre deceiving everyone involved in criminal prosecutions about how this information has been obtained," Greenwald says."
I thought one of the hallmarks of our judicial system was to be able to face your accuser in court.... This takes away that element and keeps it secret.... Secrecy seems to be the hallmark of this system that is in play.... It needs to be dismantled.....