Norway Used NSA Technology for Potentially Illegal Spying

Re:Norway Used NSA Technology for Potentially Illegal Spying by wlesieutre on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:04PM (#16503380)

I think "parallel construction" is the issue at hand, they can illegally search your emails with no cause or warrant, and then pretend they didn't and came by the evidence through other means. They can do this to everyone, and if you're targeted there's very little (nothing?) you can do about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

>In August 2013, a report by Reuters revealed that the Special Operations Division (SOD) of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration advises DEA agents to practice parallel construction when creating criminal cases against Americans that are based on NSA warrantless surveillance. The use of illegally obtained evidence is generally inadmissible under the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine.

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Re:Norway Used NSA Technology for Potentially Illegal Spying by Teever on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:28PM (#16503650)

I've been wondering for quite some time just how much of Bob Mueller's investigation into the President and Russian collusion is a meticulously produced example of parallel construction.

I'm not saying Trump and his people are innocent or that there's no Russian involvement, I just think it's highly unlikely that the set of evidence that we will see in these cases was obtained or produced with the publicized methods.

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