{"id":9243,"date":"2013-08-11T15:06:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T15:06:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T15:06:37","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9243","title":{"rendered":"Salon.com: The NSA-DEA police state tango"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salon.com: T<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/08\/10\/the_nsa_dea_police_state_tango\/\">he NSA-DEA police state tango<\/a> | This week&#8217;s DEA bombshell shows us how the drug  war and the terror war have poisoned our justice system by Andrew O&#8217;Hehir:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So the paranoid hippie pot dealer you knew in college was right all along: The feds really were after him. In the latest post-Snowden bombshell about the extent and consequences of government spying, we learned from Reuters reporters this week that a secret branch of the DEA called the Special Operations Division \u2013 so secret that nearly everything about it is classified, including the size of its budget and the location of its office \u2014 has been using the immense pools of data collected by the NSA, CIA, FBI and other intelligence agencies to go after American citizens for ordinary drug crimes. Law enforcement agencies, meanwhile, have been coached to conceal the existence of the program and the source of the information by creating what\u2019s called a \u201cparallel construction,\u201d a fake or misleading trail of evidence. So no one in the court system \u2013 not the defendant or the defense attorney, not even the prosecutor or the judge \u2013 can ever trace the case back to its true origins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9243\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}