{"id":31452,"date":"2018-01-22T07:19:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T12:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31452"},"modified":"2018-01-22T07:19:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T12:19:38","slug":"techdirt-report-shows-us-law-enforcement-routinely-engages-in-parallel-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31452","title":{"rendered":"techdirt: Report Shows US Law Enforcement Routinely Engages In Parallel Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20180110\/14482038982\/report-shows-us-law-enforcement-routinely-engages-parallel-construction.shtml\">Report Shows US Law Enforcement Routinely Engages In Parallel Construction<\/a> by Tim Cushing:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2018\/01\/09\/dark-side\/secret-origins-evidence-us-criminal-cases\">A long report by Human Rights Watch<\/a> delves into the secretive world behind the evidence given in criminal cases. Multiple law enforcement entities are making use of DEA tips to build cases and secure convictions, but they&#8217;re burying the original evidence using parallel construction, whitewashing it of possible Fourth Amendment violations.<\/p>\n<p>Parallel construction is nothing new. The DEA has been a long-time participant in the practice. Documents obtained by C.J. Ciaramella in 2014 included training materials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20140203\/11143926078\/parallel-construction-revealed-how-dea-is-trained-to-launder-classified-surveillance-info.shtml\">laying out explicit directions<\/a> for hiding the origin of questionably-obtained intelligence. The DEA has had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20130901\/23253224379\/att-has-employees-embedded-govt-providing-near-realtime-searches-nearly-every-phone-call.shtml\">full access to domestic phone records<\/a> thanks to the Hemisphere program. Records obtained via this legally-dubious method have been passed on to local law enforcement agencies with instructions to obscure the origin of &#8220;new&#8221; criminal investigations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: Report Shows US Law Enforcement Routinely Engages In Parallel Construction by Tim Cushing:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31452","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=31452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31454,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31452\/revisions\/31454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}