{"id":17105,"date":"2015-05-05T20:36:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T01:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17105"},"modified":"2015-05-05T20:36:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T01:36:40","slug":"boingboing-court-says-dea-is-allowed-to-secretly-fill-your-truck-with-weed-get-into-firefights-with-zetas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17105","title":{"rendered":"boingboing: Court says DEA is allowed to secretly fill your truck with weed, get into firefights with Zetas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>boingboing: <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/05\/02\/court-says-dea-is-allowed-to-s.html\">Court says DEA is allowed to secretly fill your truck with weed, get into firefights with Zetas<\/a> by Cory Doctorow:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Craig Patty asked his employee Lawrence Chapa to help take one of his two trucks to the garage, not realizing that Chapa was a DEA undercover planning to fill the truck with weed, which ended in a firefight with a Los Zetas hit squad that killed the driver, who was a DEA informant.<\/p>\n<p>The DEA says it doesn&#8217;t owe Patty anything for the more than $100,000 in repairs that were required for the truck, and disclaim any responsibility for the death of Patty&#8217;s employee. Also, they won&#8217;t do anything about the fact that they led the Zetas to believe that Patty was a rival drug-runner.<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge in Texas dismissed Patty&#8217;s lawsuit against the DEA, because when the DEA is undertaking a &#8220;clandestine&#8221; operation, it can operate with total legal impunity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>boingboing: Court says DEA is allowed to secretly fill your truck with weed, get into firefights with Zetas by Cory Doctorow: Craig Patty asked his employee Lawrence Chapa to help take one of his two trucks to the garage, not &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17105\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-misconduct","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17106,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17105\/revisions\/17106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}