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mr_luc on Feb 4, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: DEA redacts tactic that's more secret than paralle...

This is fantastically interesting.

I probably just missed it, but I hadn't seen such clear-cut, Snowden-style proof of parallel construction at other, non-intelligence agencies before.

tptacek on Feb 4, 2014 [–]

Why would you need proof? The technique is much older than NSA/FBI fusion.

dragonwriter on Feb 4, 2014 | [–]

What's new--and has potentially wide-ranging impacts on criminal prosecutions--is public, documentary and testimonial, evidence from inside federal law enforcement that it is systematic policy.

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