{"id":124169,"date":"2014-06-13T13:43:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T13:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=124169"},"modified":"2014-06-13T13:43:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T13:43:55","slug":"nsa-can-secretly-aid-criminal-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/nsa-can-secretly-aid-criminal-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"How NSA Can Secretly Aid Criminal Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ray McGovern<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">Rarely do you get a chance to ask a just-retired FBI director whether he had \u201cany legal qualms\u201d about what, in football, is called \u201cillegal procedure,\u201d but at the Justice Department is called \u201cparallel construction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">Government wordsmiths have given us this pleasant euphemism to describe the use of the National Security Agency\u2019s illegal eavesdropping on Americans as an investigative tool to pass on tips to\u00a0law enforcement agencies which then hide the source of the original suspicion and \u201cconstruct\u201d a case using \u201cparallel\u201d evidence to prosecute the likes of you and me.<\/p>\n<p>For those interested in \u201cquaint\u201d things like the protections that used to be afforded us by the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0089c4;\" title=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/08\/05\/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/08\/05\/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805\" target=\"_blank\">information<\/a>about this \u201cparallel construction\u201d has been in the public domain, including the \u201cmainstream media,\u201d for at least a year or so.<\/p>\n<p>So, I welcomed the chance to expose this artful practice to still more people with cameras rolling at a large conference on \u201cEthos &amp; Profession of Intelligence\u201d at Georgetown University on Wednesday, during the Q &amp; A after former FBI Director Robert Mueller spoke.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller ducked my question regarding whether he had any \u201clegal qualms\u201d about this \u201cparallel construction\u201d arrangement.\u00a0He launched into a discursive reply in which he described the various\u00a0\u201dauthorities\u201d enjoyed by the FBI (and the CIA), which left the clear impression not only that he was without qualms but that he considered the practice of concealing the provenance of illegally acquired tip-off information somehow within those professed \u201cauthorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2014\/06\/12\/how-nsa-can-secretly-aid-criminal-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray McGovern Rarely do you get a chance to ask a just-retired FBI director whether he had \u201cany legal qualms\u201d about what, in football, is called \u201cillegal procedure,\u201d but at the Justice Department is called \u201cparallel construction.\u201d Government wordsmiths have given us this pleasant euphemism to describe the use of the National Security Agency\u2019s illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-124169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news","7":"category-sicence-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}